"Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?"

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“You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”

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