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- "Mark Twain once wrote to himself privately in his notebook, 'If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.'"

- "[R]esearch that is less likely to be true is cited 153 times more than if the material is interesting. Implicit in this is the following idea: research spreads more if it's simplified enough to be interesting in the first place (regardless of its accuracy)."

- "An availability cascade describes the phenomenon of an idea spreading rapidly and creating a self-reinforcing cascade of information."

- "As a thinker, your goal centers not on hitting targets that others find difficult to hit, but to hit targets that others can't even see."

- "Write the truest sentence you can. Write with your 100% authentic voice."

- Complexity attraction: The psychological tendency to be drawn to individuals or ideas that possess a moderate, rather than overly simple or overly convoluted, level of intricacy.

- "It does one an injustice to make such knowledge so easily digestible; doing such a thing waters down the impact knowledge can have on one's mind."

- Soporific: Adjective; causing or tending to cause sleep

- "Notetaking, if done via writing by hand, acts as a memory enhancement tool" (Scheper 40).