If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts

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Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. / The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. / Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. / Ours is less and less a free society.

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