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“Teach French and unteach sincerity.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
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