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Dora Russell

"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."

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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."
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