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Edmund Burke made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenience of the people who happen to be here right now, but is a deep pact between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.

— Douglas Murray The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)

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