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What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition

by Samuel Gershman

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طرف خانه سوان (در جستجوی زمان از دست رفته #1)

by Marcel Proust

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A Natural History of Negation (The David Hume Series)

by Laurence R. Horn

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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) by Philip Pullman

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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed.

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“In a way, he realized, I’m part of the form-destroying process of entropy.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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“A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,” wrote Orwell, tends to be “uninterested in what happens in the real world.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing In 2025

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“Qu'importent nos ennuis, nos défaillances, la lenteur d'exécution et le dégoût de l'oeuvre ensuite, si nous sommes toujours en progrès ! Si nous montons, qu'importe le but ! Si nous galopons, qu'importe l'auberge ! Ce perpétuel malaise n'est-il pas une garantie de délicatesse, une preuve de foi !”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

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“Le bourgeois (c'est-à-dire l'humanité entière maintenant, y compris le peuple) se conduit envers les classiques comme envers la religion : il sait qu'ils sont, serait fâché qu'ils ne fussent pas, comprend qu'ils ont une certaine utilité très éloignée, mais il n'en use nullement et ça l'embête beaucoup, voilà.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance 3e série. 1852-1854

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