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George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

Edward Abbey
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
Edward Abbey

Marcus Aurelius
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
George Orwell, 1984

Henry David Thoreau
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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