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I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY


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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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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.



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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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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.



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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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