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“We are a divided country, but we are even more divided in our minds than in reality.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
tags: philosophy, political
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“Real political change happens with political work.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
tags: change, philopsophy, political
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“our cognitive systems value self-protection, sometimes more than reason.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill
tags: humor, inspirational, success
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“For at least the last few hundred years, it is the fate of conservatives to always be losing, but not quite yet. And it is the fate of progressives to always be winning, but not fast enough. The result is that progressives are winning, but only conservatives can see it. So everyone is miserable.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
tags: change, political, progress
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American Prison by Shane BauerThe World As It Is by Ben RhodesThe Broken Ladder by Keith PayneWhy Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
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Contemporary, Crime, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Thriller, Young-adult, and Domestic Thriller


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