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Machiko’s ideal-bookshelf shelf

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

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Machiko’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by John A. Powell

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For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

Machiko’s Quotes

“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: experience, memory, reflection, self

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“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

tags: thought-provoking

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

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