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― The Plague
“though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't
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“But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four”
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― The Plague
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― The Plague
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