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“He thought that exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeing the truth and achieving it, of living up to one’s highest possibility, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame, of being able to stand naked in full sunlight. He thought that exaltation means joy and that joy is man’s birthright. He thought that a place built as a setting for man is a sacred place.”
― Fountainhead
― Fountainhead
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A bias is an obstacle to our goal of obtaining truth, and thus in our way.”
― Map and Territory
― Map and Territory
“But if you look at everything only through the lens of your party or affiliation, and are capable of being in the same room only with people who think and vote like you, doesn’t that make you somewhat uncurious and oversimplifying, passive-aggressive, locked into assuming you are riding the high moral tide, without ever wondering if you might not, in the eyes of others, be on the very bottom?”
― White
― White
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