“here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“The macho values that are found today in many Asian and African countries, these are not Asian values, or African values. They are not Muslim values. They are not Eastern values. They are patriarchal values like those found in Sweden only 60 years ago, and with social and economic progress they will vanish, just as they did in Sweden. They are not unchangeable.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“Being intelligent—being good with numbers, or being well educated, or even winning a Nobel Prize—is not a shortcut to global factual knowledge. Experts are experts only within their field.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“We’re not meant to be best friends with every person who crosses our paths.”
― The Thinnest Air
― The Thinnest Air
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