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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Rant

    Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
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  2. Euripides _ The Children of Herakles

    In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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  3. Robert A. Heinlein _ Time Enough for Love

    A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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  4. Salman Rushdie _ Joseph Anton: A Memoir

    When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood {or fell} because they were strong enough {or too weak} to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.
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  5. Noam Chomsky _ Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on

    Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'-blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.
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