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"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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