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"ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."

"A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff."

"The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperatio..."

"Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for."

"With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"If you are stuck in circumstances in which it takes Herculean efforts to get through the day— doing low-income work, obeying an authoritarian boss, buying clothes for the children, dealing with school..."

"There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought."

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle..."

"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."