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Daniel Defoe

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

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"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

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