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You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth...

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​Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered...

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It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely com...

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Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infreq...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebFooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of he...

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Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ig...

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LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey)...

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. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

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Franz WerfelThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh

And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This ...

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