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“HE HAD TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING BECAUSE HE STOLE ALL MY MONEY. Now, how’s that for a poetic justice plot twist! To the people in the back: You’ve been lied to and deceived. You’ll need more than Cliff notes to understand this story. When you sabotage someone’s ability to earn an income, you will earn double but you will also work double until the debt is settled! You will labor for what you costed someone else. You’ll have to earn your portion, plus their portion. Meaning, you’ll work both portions! Meanwhile, you’ll never have peace! And your fall won’t come in the middle! It will Come from the top. Happy climbing.”

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Book:Order in The Courtroom: The Tale of The Texas Poker Player
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“It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except to a limited extent with war prisoners and colored slaves. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with a darkest suspicion. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what has been told about them is lies.”

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Book:1984
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“The political scientist Lisa Wedeen has observed that the Syrian regime tells lies so ludicrous that no one could possibly believe them, for example that Syria, at the height of the civil war, was an excellent tourist destination. These "national fictions," she concluded, were not meant to persuade anyone, but rather to demonstrate the power of the people who were spinning the stories. Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie; it's to make people fear the liar.”

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Book:Autocracy, Inc.
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“In Putin's Russia, Assad's Syria, or Maduro's Venezuela, politicians and television personalities often play a different game. They lie constantly, blatantly, obviously. But when they are exposed, they don't bother to offer counterarguments. When Russian-controlled forces shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014, the Russian government reacted not only with a denial but with multiple stories, plausible and implausible: they blamed the Ukrainian army, or the CIA, or a nefarious plot in which 298 dead people were placed on a plane in order to fake a crash and discredit Russia. This tactic, the so-called "fire hose of falsehoods," produces not outrage but nihilism. Given so many explanations, how can you know what actually happened? What if you can never know? If can't understand what is going on around you, then you are not going to join a great movement for democracy, or follow a truth-telling leader, or listen when anyone speaks about positive political change. Instead, you will avoid politics altogether. Autocrats have an enormous incentive to spread that hopelessness and cynicism, not only in their own countries, but around the world.”

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Book:Autocracy, Inc.
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“I själva verket bör vi tycka synd om fröken Helga Fägersköld. Hon känner inte till något annat sätt att få uppmärksamhet än genom att chockera och detta begär övervinner allt annat. Vore det fråga om ett ungdomligt lättsinne eller en enstaka dålig handling kunde man haft överseende med detta. Men det är en hel väv av lögner och en lång rad handlingar som har pågått under flera år.”

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Book:En väv av lögner
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“The world celebrates the death of their chosen adversary, all of the them united against a chosen enemy. They do not pause at finding little of the claims that initially united them confirmed in the aftermath, the threat rumored into existence proven laughably false, but heads turning away quickly and with little thought. They are victorious. They are righteous. They have triumphed over the one they themselves declared their enemy. They stood valiantly against that which they themselves declared unorthodox. They stand victorious above that which they themselves declared corrupt. The commend themselves for staying away from the narrow, darkened path, for remaining on the well-trodden road, its path so much clearer, so much easier, gilded and bright and the company so much more numerous. Surely, even the heavens themselves would laud them for their valiant fortitude against that which they themselves declared evil." - cultivation world (mo dao zu shi fanfiction "In the end" by apathyinreverie)”

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Author:apathyinreverie
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“The following day, the Israeli army spokesperson's unit attempted to cover up the embarrassment on the battlefield. It claimed in a statement to the media that the soldiers had been killed in a single RPG strike, then insisted that the soldiers had successfully stopped a planned Qassam Brigade attack on civilians living in the adjacent Nahal Oz kibbutz. Both claims were proven false, and the veracity of the video confirmed.”

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Book:The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
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“Regardless of whether you admit it or not, if you have done wrong then you have done wrong. No excuse, no lie, no alibi, no rationalization or justification will change it. And no power under Heaven can conceal it from the all-seeing eyes of God.”

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Book:Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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