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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

by Amanda Montell (Goodreads Author)

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The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and The Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life

by Uri Gneezy

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Old Babes in the Wood

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“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, comdemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
― Ayn Rand

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“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

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“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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