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Happiness and Love

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

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Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent by Emily Chappell

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and I noticed my body beginning to fizz with excitement, as if someone were opening bottles of champagne behind my rib cage.

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“When someone thanks someone else for their salad dressing recipe it is invariably meant to announce that they have had sex with the person.”
― Zoe Dubno, Happiness and Love

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“Zuckerberg had come to an understanding with Kushner during the meal. Facebook, he promised, would avoid fact-checking political speech—thus allowing the Trump campaign to claim whatever it wanted. If it followed through on that promise, the Trump administration would lay off on any heavy-handed regulations.”
― Max Chafkin, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

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“culture that valued authors who wrote only of the literary media and its gossip so that the literary media would have no choice but to review their novels, delivering readers to them regardless of their quality, their ideas, and their style, to say nothing of their entertainment value.”
― Zoe Dubno, Happiness and Love

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“employees at the company’s driverless car division distributed stickers that proudly proclaimed, “Safety Third.”
― Max Chafkin, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

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“It was called Clearview—and the idea, as Johnson explained to Thiel, was simple: He and Ton-That had written software to browse Facebook profiles, as well as profiles uploaded to other social networks, and then to download every picture that users had ever posted, storing a copy along with that person’s name. They would offer this database to police departments and other law enforcement groups along with a facial recognition algorithm. These tools working in concert would allow police to take a picture of an unidentified culprit, upload it into the software, and get a name back.”
― Max Chafkin, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

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