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Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

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Boys in Zinc

by Svetlana Alexievich

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The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America

by Anita Hannig

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Jess’s Notes & Highlights

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

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One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the opposite. It is simply the product of a way of thinking that has been around for millennia and is ...more

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The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

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The Door

by Magda Szabó

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Jess’s Quotes

“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
― Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics

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“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
― Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

tags: babylon, belief, burden-of-proof, christian-god, egyptian, fiction, gods, hypothesis, knowledge, olympus, probability, proof, rational, reason, santa, satan, superstition

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“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism, philosophy

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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight