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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels #2)

by Elena Ferrante

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Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

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The Art of War (Vintage Classics)

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The Three Musketeers (Musketeers Trilogy #1) by Alexandre Dumas

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Nothing makes the time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no ...more

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.”
― Umberto Eco, Baudolino

tags: humor, middle-ages, theology

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“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

tags: music, time

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“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices

tags: blindness, cognition, communication, community, senses, sociality, speech, thought

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