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“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer, it just seems longer.’1”
― Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

“The claim that some races were innately superior to others was later championed by Hitler, and so if Hitler was a nativist, then all nativists were Nazis. (That conclusion is illogical, but it makes sense emotionally if you dislike nativism.)13 The”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Intuition is the best word to describe the dozens or hundreds of rapid, effortless moral judgments and decisions that we all make every day.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The real problem with robots is not their own artificial intelligence but rather the natural stupidity and cruelty of their human masters.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Adults forty-five years or older who sleep fewer than six hours a night are 200 percent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke during their lifetime, as compared with those sleeping seven to eight hours a night.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“With few exceptions over the past half century, every experiment that has investigated the impact of deficient sleep on the human body has observed an overactive sympathetic nervous system.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“With few exceptions over the past half century, every experiment that has investigated the impact of deficient sleep on the human body has observed an overactive sympathetic nervous system. For as long as the state of insufficient sleep lasts, and for some time thereafter, the body remains stuck in some degree of a fight-or-flight state. It can last for years in those with an untreated sleep disorder, excessive work hours that limit sleep or its quality, or the simple neglect of sleep by an individual.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“The decisions we make in our lives—in business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle choices, raising our children, and relationships—easily fit von Neumann’s definition of “real games.” They involve uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception, prominent elements in poker. Trouble follows when we treat life decisions as if they were chess decisions.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

“Be aware there are no “adults.” Everyone makes it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, and discarding as you see fit. Figure it out yourself, and do it. [71]”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“A recent survey found that 82 per cent of Americans think that over the next thirty years robots and computers will ‘probably or definitely do most of the work done by humans’ but that only 37 per cent think they will do ‘the type of work I do’: a big contradiction there.”
― Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

“Everyone could see the contrast between this thriving, martial, boldly led new Germany and the decadent democracies in the West, whose confusions and vacillations seemed to increase with each new month of the calendar.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany