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“According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
― André Gide

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“Kahneman and other pioneers of modern psychology have revealed that our minds crave certainty and when they don't find it, they impose it.”
― Philip E. Tetlock

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“By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the ‘right’ person rather than in knowing how to love a real — that is, a necessarily rather unright — human being.”
― Alain de Botton, How to Think More About Sex

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