Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Quotes from the Book
When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.
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Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.
When the good ones, the hardworking hill climbers, are displaced for any reason—bad legislation, ghetto diffusion, or political leveraging—social sewage will flood in to fill the void. It
Emotion, any emotion, was a symptom of perceived reality, not reality itself.
They don’t need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.
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About Randy Wayne White
About the book
Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald" (The Tampa Tribune-Times). Now he delivers a wicked new thriller that sends government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford into dangerous new waters, as a Florida fishing dispute escalates into a deadly war that reaches across the ocean...
Book details
- First published
- 1996
- Author
- Randy Wayne White
- Genre
- Mystery
- Goodreads rating
- 4.12 (5k ratings)
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