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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”
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“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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