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George Orwell Quotes: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
         

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.


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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.



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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.



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