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“I know it’s a good play if I’m afraid to show it to my grandmother.”

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— Jordan Peterson

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"Arms are not yet taken up; but virtually, you are in a civil war. You are not people of differing opinions in a public council;—you are enemies, that must subdue or be subdued, on the one side or the …"

— Edmund Burke

Philosophy1729–1797

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— Stanisław Lem

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