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

“The organized lying practiced by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. It is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary.”
― George Orwell, Books v. Cigarettes

“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

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld