In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
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He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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