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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)

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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between

by Michael Dobbs (Goodreads Author)

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La vida instrucciones de uso

by Georges Perec

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David’s Notes & Highlights

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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David’s Quotes

“You cannot reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

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“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth. —Howard Skipper”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“The crucial driver of evolution, Darwin understood, was not nature’s sense of purpose, but her sense of humor).”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

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“How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

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“that the largest “negative eugenics” project in human history was not the systemic extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany or Austria in the 1930s. That ghastly distinction falls on India and China, where more than 10 million female children are missing from adulthood because of infanticide, abortion, and neglect of female children. Depraved”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

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