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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

— John Twelve Hawks Spark (2014)

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When people discard their notions of privacy, they permit a peaceful society.

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