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"Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove 'my friend' before offering to sell him a watch."
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"Brand-new truths are probably not Truths."

"Round numbers are always false."

"Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt."

"By nature, that mind is easily fooled by supernatural mysticism. It is extremely gullible. And no matter how much we the civilized human beings advance in the fields of modern sciences, there is always a part of us, that tries to allure us with magical nonsense, because that nonsense has been with us since the birth of humanity."

"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."

"Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth."

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."

"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
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"To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside."

"Around them, the dawn gently wakes Borg like someone breathing into the ear of someone they love. With sun and promises. Tickling light falls over warm duvets, like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and toasted bread. It shouldn't be doing this. It's the wrong day to be beautiful, but the dawn doesn't care."

"I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They're not really much more than ... kids.'...'That depends what we want from the kids. And what the kids want from hockey."

"You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!"

"Grow up and be different and don't let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different."

"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."
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