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Never use a long word where a short one will do.


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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.



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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.



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If liberty means anything at all, it means 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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