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Apple is the largest tax avoider in the world because lawmakers treat it like the hot girl on campus—if she pays a little attention to them, they swoon and are willing to enter into an abusive relationship.
“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.”
― Hidden Trump
― Hidden Trump
“There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.
The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.”
― Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.”
― Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
Michael’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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