History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. (Naguib Mahfouz)

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Naguib Mahfouz

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