Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the wor… - Yuval Noah Harari

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Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off.

Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי; born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

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Native Name: יובל נח הררי

Alternative Names: Yuval N. Harari

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Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.

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The answer isn’t a story.

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.

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