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Bertrand Russell
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2012). The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57, p.152, Routledge
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2012). The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57, p.152, Routledge

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