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Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by René Clair Vive la Liberte a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei."

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

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