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[entry 5]

hot words
- not fact
- avoid & swap w/ facts

confirmation bias

self justifying clever stories
- victim
- villain
- helpless

transform clever -> useful
- clever = incomplete
- tell rest of story
- victors -> actors
- villains -> people
- helpless -> able
- return to original motive"
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Joseph Smith Jr.
“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
Joseph Smith Jr.

Thomas Sowell
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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George Orwell
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“Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?”
Plato, Crito

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“Great field marshal, why bother to spur me on? I go all-out as it is.”
Homer

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