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Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

— Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

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A phrase used in some advertisements, it is wordplay based on the title of Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 about a totalitarian state, and the assertion made within it that 451° Fahrenheit was "The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns."

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