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Barry Eisler
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Extremis
Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.
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Salman Rushdie
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The Satanic Verses
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Max Frisch
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Montauk
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
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Margaret Atwood
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The Blind Assassin
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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