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“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
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“You want to believe that those who work hard and sacrifice get ahead and those who are lazy and cheat do not. This, of course, is not always true. Success is often greatly influenced by when you were born, where you grew up, the socioeconomic status of your family, and random chance”
― You Are Not So Smart
― You Are Not So Smart
“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”
― Under the Dome
― Under the Dome
“In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the device clearly showed a certain number of them preferred Pepsi while tasting it. When those people were told they were drinking Pepsi, a fraction of them, the ones who had enjoyed Coke all their lives, did something unexpected. The scanner showed their brains scrambling the pleasure signals, dampening them. They then told the experimenter afterward they had preferred Coke in the taste tests.”
― You Are Not So Smart
― You Are Not So Smart
“If someone you know gets sick from taking a flu shot, you will be less likely to get one even if it is statistically safe. In fact, if you see a story on the news about someone dying from the flu shot, that one isolated case could me enough to keep you away from the vaccine forever. On the other hand, if you hear a news story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious. The tendency to react more rapidly and to a greater degree when considering information you are familiar with is called the availability heuristic.”
― You Are Not So Smart
― You Are Not So Smart
Sara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,002 books
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600 friends
14 books
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6 friends
2 books
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37 friends
41 books
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30 friends
11 books
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61 friends
2 books
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48 friends
4 books
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46 friends
2 books
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12 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Sports, Thriller, and Travel
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