The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie. - Rachel Hartman

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Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

Rachel Hartman

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

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My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

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The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

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Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

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Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.

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I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

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