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Book cover for American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
At 10:05 p.m., Paddock, dressed in a brown shirt and black pants, lifted an AR-15 to his shoulder. He aimed downward. Aldean was playing a slow love song called “When She Says Baby.” Fans swaying to the music thought they heard fireworks, ...more
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Chuck Klosterman
“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”
Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Even though a strict reading of a Paleolithic diet would include cannibalism, it is a practice that I have to discourage. Modern people have a much higher ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids due to their grain-based diets; carry a wide variety of chronic infections; have destroyed their liver with excessive consumption of alcohol and fructose; and contain many environmental toxins. That said, if one were to incorporate cannibalism into ‘eating paleo,’ it would be healthiest to eat people who strictly adhered to the guidelines in this book.”
John Durant, The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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