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Jacob Cooley
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Sunny, warm, pleasant, spring-like in January, on the back roads of the Lowcountry. But my pleasure was tempered by the shacks and the rusted trailers surrounded by plastic children’s toys and old bikes and the absence of any industry. The
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“Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test.. or whatever.. I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them.”
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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
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“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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Jacob’s 2024 Year in Books
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