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It reminded me of something Carsten Niebuhr wrote in 1774: “Young men who like their comforts, and a dainty table, or who wish to pass their time pleasantly in the company of women must not go to Arabia.”
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
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― 1984
“The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.”
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