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Hillary Clinton

drray23

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1. Yes it is surreal. It is as if people do not learn from history.

Reply to beachbumbob (Original post)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 12:08 PM

Jul 2016

This reminds me of a quote by Voltaire (A very well known french philosopher from the age of enlightment, a must study in every french high school)

"Ceux qui peuvent vous faire croire à des absurdités peuvent vous faire commettre des attrocités."
which translates to :

Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

He wrote that in 1765. He has been proven right since many times over.

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