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“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”
“Sometimes a bad situation is still better than the alternative. You did what you needed to do to survive.”
“But people often believe silly things, given enough proof.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
“Can you not be both a man who follows his conscience and a good king?”
What was the value in speaking the prayers of a long-dead god?
If so many people believed so many different things, how could any one of them—or anything at all—really be true?