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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

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Book cover for The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

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And so my childhood was tugged between conflicting exceptionalisms, between the American condition of being able to choose and the Jewish condition of being chosen . .

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“Descartes said, Cogito ergo sum—“I think, therefore I am.” But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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“And we cannot suppress the powerful intuition that what makes sense in hindsight today was predictable yesterday.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“She has a coherent story that explains all she knows, and the coherence makes her feel good.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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