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Jim
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He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
“experiment was conducted in the Soviet Union, and it failed miserably. ‘Everyone would work according to their abilities, and receive according to their needs’ turned out in practice into ‘everyone would work as little as they can get away with, and receive as much as they could grab’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man’s inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, upon seeing the explosion, quoted from the Bhagavadgita: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
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650 books
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63 friends
662 books
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13 friends
445 books
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186 books
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186 books
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6 friends
285 books
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1 friend
7 books
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1 friend
1,723 books
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84 friends
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