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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.


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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 past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.



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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.



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

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



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