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fetsiboomsticks

6-27-2008 9:09 AM

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fetsiboomsticks says:

Like I always say.... and bonus - it was previously said by a woman.

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8-27-2008 6:49 PM

Jorjor

“I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.”

— Tom Stoppard

This is the kind of one-sided freedom that Chomsky ws probably talking about. It's a line from chapter two of his only novel, Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, published in 1966.

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