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But to this notion of bloodletting and the material transmutation of forms there corresponds an idea of purification. It has to do with isolating the very essence of any sensual ecstasy experienced momentarily and individually by the
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“By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
James’s 2025 Year in Books
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