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“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
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“Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.”
― Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
― Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
“But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with.”
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“It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
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And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
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