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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

by Thomas Cathcart

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams

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Making comics is a process by which you strip out the unnecessary noise from a situation until all that is left is the absurd-yet-true core.

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.”
― Michael M. Lewis, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

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“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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