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“The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhyming, structured, and above all easily visualized.”
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Our magic is a joke down there. It doesn’t work. You might as well be shouting brownie recipes.”
― Sandman Slim
― Sandman Slim
“All plans eventually fell apart; it was in their nature. Reality never complied with expectations, and one who expected plans to be pulled off perfectly was often left unprepared when chaos overtook the calculated order.”
― Split the Party
― Split the Party
“one of those smug intellectuals who talked too much, listened but little, and amended their opinions never.”
― The Fall of Babel
― The Fall of Babel
“But understanding nothing, or very little of the world, and having no desire to understand more than you already do, well, that invites entitlement. What was a privilege becomes a right. And that, I think, is dangerous.”
― The Fall of Babel
― The Fall of Babel
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