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— Lord Acton"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought."
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
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