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“Every time I stole a dollar I knew I was breaking a law and working a hardship on the loser. Yet for years I kept on doing it. I wonder how many of us quit wronging others for the best reason of all — because it is wrong, and we know it.”
― Jack Black, You Can't Win

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“Perhaps it is a very good thing that we cannot wholly rule our minds and that they force on us ideas and images which we would ignobly prefer to dismiss; thus truth makes its way in spite of egotism and unconsciousness.”
― Victor Serge, The Case of Comrade Tulayev

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“The lack of understanding produced a lack of belief. And the lack of belief meant death. Very, very dangerous. The Mentor had told him bluntly: the essential thing was to believe in the idea to the very end, unconditionally. To realize that not understanding anything was an absolutely indispensable condition of the Experiment.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, The Doomed City

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“Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

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“So all right, then, he thought bitterly, it means I'm a poor soldier. Or rather, I'm just a soldier. And no more than a soldier. That selfsame soldier who doesn't know how to reflect on things, so he has to obey blindly. And I'm not any kind of chess partner or ally of the Great Strategist, but just a tiny little cog in his colossal machine, and my place is not at the table in his inscrutable game but beside Wang, with Uncle Yura, with Selma . . .”
― Arkady Strugatsky, The Doomed City

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