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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― The Common Good
― The Common Good
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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