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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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