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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)

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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations

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Los miserables

by Victor Hugo

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which means ‘house’. Who’s the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It’s the Sapiens.

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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David’s Quotes

“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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“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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“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America—a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance’s link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety—one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing. —Voltaire”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“In God we trust. All others [must] have data”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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