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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Colin Elliott

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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

by Thomas Penn

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Feb 07, 2026 07:41AM

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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

by Daniel Kahneman

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David said: " Provides a lot of insights similar to those found in "Thinking Fast and Slow" but targets practical improvements in professional and organizational decision-making through specific policies and practices. Following principles of "decision hygiene", f ...more "

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“It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word equilibrium, or normal distribution, do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“There were some obvious reasons why women responded to 2016 with righteous outrage: they'd watched an extraordinarily qualified female presidential candidate lose to an extraordinarily unqualified, hateful charlatan with a self-confessed record of sexual assault. But it wasn't just that.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

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“Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.”
― G. K. Chesterton

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“We desperately need nonpartisan pro-democracy reforms to make our government responsive to the people's will. But when one party has abandoned its commitment to democracy, any reform effort inherently looks partisan.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

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