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Josh Chen
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“what people acquire with a ticket is more than a chance to win; it is the right to dream pleasantly of winning.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world.”
― Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
― Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
“When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.”
― 10% Happier
― 10% Happier
“If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies... We draw our lines around these moments of pain, remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us.”
― American Gods: Tenth Anniversary
― American Gods: Tenth Anniversary
“Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks; among the matters covered is, in particular, the cause of the hostilities between Greeks and non-Greeks.”
― Histories
― Histories
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