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  "text": "No one thought about what kind of society we were building with such stupid decisions. People who could afford to educate their children in private schools were glad to see the government finally stop wasting their tax money, educating other people’s children. They seemed to think they lived on Mars. They imagined that a country filled with poor, uneducated, unemployable people somehow wouldn’t hurt them!",
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      "text": "Consider—\n\nWe are born\n\nNot with purpose,\n\nBut with potential.",
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      "text": "Beware:\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself\n\nIgnorance\n\nPromotes suspicion.\n\nSuspicion\n\nEngenders fear.\n\nFear quails,\n\nIrrational and blind,\n\nOr fear looms,\n\nDefiant and closed.\n\nBlind, closed,\n\nSuspicious, afraid,\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself,\n\nAnd protected,\n\nIgnorance grows.",
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      "text": "“I’m not a demagogue.”\n\n“That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues—to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.”",
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