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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.
“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.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”
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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.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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