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... stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are merely unteachable . Only when their money and power are gone will the younger among them ...
... stupidity , unconscious sabotage , an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing . They are not wicked , or not altogether wicked ; they are merely unteachable . Only when their money and power are gone will the younger among them ...
Page 39
... stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies " for better , for worse " . Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted , as though it were a law of nature , the ...
... stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one's country implies " for better , for worse " . Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted , as though it were a law of nature , the ...
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... stupidity of left- wing propaganda had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers , white - collar workers , shop- keepers , policemen . All of these people had been THE LION ...
... stupidity of left- wing propaganda had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers , white - collar workers , shop- keepers , policemen . All of these people had been THE LION ...
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