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Noam Chomsky Quotes: Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
         

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.


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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
         



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