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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults –a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

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This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. – Orson Scott Card

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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