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  1. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
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  2. Tim Wise

    ...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change {which they would perceive as against their interests} or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality
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  3. Richard Dawkins _ The God Delusion

    More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
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  4. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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  5. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see
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  6. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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  7. Anne Rice _ The Witching Hour

    Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
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  9. Milan Kundera _ Laughable Loves

    A man is responsible for his ignorance.
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