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"I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability"

If I look at Tesla stock with everything I learned from this book so far, it is worst and most exaggerated, most overvalued stock that you can see rarely in your lifetime. Right now it needs 409 years to earn back initial investments or everyone in the World has to drive only Tesla to justify the price?

"You know what Mark Twain says: ‘October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.’” "

“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school—imagine all the lessons he never had to unlearn.“

"The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself"

“woman hater”: misogynist. It was usually used to describe mass murderers, rapists. But there is also other types of misogynists. Only his choice of weapons are different, his words and his moods. His primary need is control. While he physically doesn't abuse the woman in his life, he systematically wore her down through psychological battering, which in the end emotionally devastating as physical violence

This book makes me feel naive and sad

This book makes me feel dumb, naive and sad

...erlaubt uns die Intellektualisierung, Ereignisse logisch zu sezieren, ohne die Angst, Trauer oder andere unangenehme Gefühle, die damit verbunden sind, zulassen zu müssen...Intellektualisierung gibt dem Betroffenen das Gefühl, sich dem Problem zu stellen, aber weil er die zugrunde liegenden Gefühle abwehrt, kommt er nie an dessen Wurzel

I don't remember if I read, heard or watch anything more heartbreaking, devastating...How it all can be even real and it really happened to somebody

"She stayed there, as the men sipped tea downstairs with Rasheed, smoked, chatted. Rasheed had told Mariam that she was not to come down until the visitors had left.
Mariam didn’t mind. In truth, she was even flattered. Rasheed saw sanctity in what they had together. Her honor, her namoos, was something worth guarding to him. She felt prized by his protectiveness. Treasured and significant."
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“Do you always think this much, Charlie?”
“Is that bad?” I just wanted someone to tell me the truth.
“Not necessarily. It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
“Is that bad?”
“Yes.”
“I think I participate, though. Don’t you think I am?”
“Well, are you dancing at these dances?”
“I’m not a very good dancer.”

".. letting him degrade her because she was pretending to be Cool Girl, she was pretending to love ***** and football and getting wasted. And I’d think, I am married to an imbecile... to a man who will always choose that, and when he gets bored with this dumb twat, he’ll just find another girl who is pretending to be that girl, and he’ll never have to do anything hard in his life"