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Man is sick and nations have gone mad.
You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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"Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (20 March 1966)

 

L. Ron Hubbard

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