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“In the old days, a liberal and a conservative (a “dove” and a “hawk,” say) got their data from one of three nightly news programs, a local paper, and a handful of national magazines, and were thus starting with the same basic facts (even if those facts were questionable, limited, or erroneous). Now each of us constructs a custom informational universe, wittingly (we choose to go to the sources that uphold our existing beliefs and thus flatter us) or unwittingly (our app algorithms do the driving for us). The data we get this way, pre-imprinted with spin and mythos, are intensely one-dimensional.”

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Author:George Saunders
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“The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent.”

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Book:Healology
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“At the very best there are two major problems with ideology. The first is that it does not represent or conform to or even address reality. It is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. And the second is that it inspires in its believers the notion that the fault here lies with miscreant fact, which should therefore be conformed to the requirements of theory by all means necessary.”

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Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books
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“ความแค้นไม่จำเป็นต้องใช้สติปัญญา มันเป็นเพียงสัญชาตญาณตอบสนองหลังถูกทำร้ายเท่านั้น การให้อภัยจึงจำเป็นต้องใช้สติปัญญาและความเข้มแข็ง”

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Book:ลำนำรักเทพสวรรค์ ภาค 2 เล่ม 5
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