"Did he believe all that he said? The question is inapplicable to this sort of personality. Subjectively Adolf Hitler was, in my opinion, entirely sincere even in his self-contradictions. For his is a humorless mind that simply excludes the need for consistency that might distress more intellectual types. To an actor the truth is anything that lies in its effect: if it makes the right impression it is true."
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Edgar Ansel Mowrer
Edgar Ansel Mowrer (March 8, 1892 β March 2, 1977) was an American journalist and writer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933
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