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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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Jan 01, 2021 11:46AM

“There are no people anywhere who don’t have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look.”
― Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

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“You cannot tax unless you can compile records and issue receipts. The symbols employed in the accountant's ledger became the rudiments of written language, an innovation that had never existed among hunters and gatherers.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“When someone asks you about a coin they flipped four times, there is a correct answer: “I’m not sure.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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“Even research communities of highly intelligent and well-meaning individuals can fall prey to confirmation bias, as IQ is positively correlated with the number of reasons people find to support their own side in an argument”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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