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“Uncontrolled, our appetite for the dramatic goes too far, prevents us from seeing the world as it is, and leads us terribly astray.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“You do not get a job or funding in this system by producing important scholarship that is productive and useful to the real world, but by furthering the agenda of the funders.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“When you reach low Earth orbit, from around 525,000 to 6.5 million feet above us, you might catch a glimpse of the International Space Station (ISS), which orbits at an average height of 1.3 million feet.”
― Tim Marshall, The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World

“Inside a dark pool, no one but the broker who ran it had any idea what was happening.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt