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  "text": "They can extinguish awareness by dumbing down education, owning TV stations, paying \"guest fees\" to leader writers, or just buying the media up. The media—and not just The Washington Post—is where democracies conduct their civil wars.",
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      "text": "I hear my father-in-law's response[...] \"Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!\"\n\nYet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?",
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      "text": "Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.",
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      "text": "Many xpert witnesses at. our trial denied Declarations could be the work of a fabricant, ascended or otherwise, and maintained it was ghosted by Union or a pureblood Abolitionst.\n\nHow lazily \"xperts\" dismiss what they fail to understand!",
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