When it comes to our knowledge and opinions, though, we tend to stick to our guns. Psychologists call this seizing and freezing.11 We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long
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“What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.”
― Love Story
― Love Story

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”
― Love Story
― Love Story

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” -- P.G. Wodehouse

Trailblazers is a place for book lovers to get together and discuss books from all genres. This bookclub will read business related, fiction, fantasy, ...more
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