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The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.


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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.



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Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.



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If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.



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