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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

— Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine (1943)

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The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

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