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by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)

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Alexis’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

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Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton

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Alexis’s Quotes

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

tags: diet, eating, food, omnivore, plants

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“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan

tags: nature

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“I had wanted to know what it would be like to be human. I knew it now. It made me want to die.”
― Anton Hur, Toward Eternity

tags: death, humanity

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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

tags: americans, chocolate, chocolate-cake, connotations, food, french, guilt, politics, semantics, word-association

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