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Sharp Objects

by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)

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American Gods (American Gods, #1) by Neil Gaiman

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God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only ...more

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“We are the products of a long selection process of chemical, biological, and cultural structures that at different levels have interacted for a long time in order to shape the funny process that we are.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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“There comes a point in every man’s life when he sees that the magician’s hat is empty, that the government and the church are run by fools, and that virtue is far rarer than he’d been led to believe.”
― David J. Morris, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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“Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations. — CHUANG TSE: II”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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