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“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“...if you're telling a good story,you must never spoil it with a truth”
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“If a Martian (who, we’ll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures—these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come—it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.”
― 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character
― 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character
“a nudge is any factor that significantly alters the behavior of Humans,”
― Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
― Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
“Democracy requires the ability of a population to pay attention long enough to identify real problems, distinguish them from fantasies, come up with solutions, and hold their leaders accountable if they fail to deliver them.”
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
― Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
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