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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase "freedom of the Press" used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all

— Harold Wilson Prime Minister (1974)

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

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