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“The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)”
― The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
― The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
“People have told me that a wolf looks right through you. But you know what I realize? That's because a wolf isn't interested in you. It's always hard for humans to accept that we're not the most important thing anyone's ever seen.”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“I would prefer not to.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: "_____ makes us human." Why? Scratch and sniff the "what makes us human" obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity.”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“Most people fantasize that if they won the lottery, they would quit their jobs and immerse themselves in leisure, play, family, parenthood, occasional thrilling sex; they'd eat when they were hungry and sleep whenever they felt sleepy. Many people, if they won the lottery and got rich quick, would want to live like elephants.”
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
― Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
James’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
858 books
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31 friends
515 books
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6 friends
812 books
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39 friends
382 books
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25 friends
50 books
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223 friends
971 books
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37 friends
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