"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

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"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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David Low, British Cartoonist

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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