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How are we supposed to make sense of all these factors in thinking about behavior? We tend to use a certain cognitive strategy when dealing with complex, multifaceted phenomena, in that we break down those separate facets into categories,
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“The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.”
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“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
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“No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”
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