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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

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“I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · My Day, 1935-1962 · Primary source

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