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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'the giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. but it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. and that is the most dangerous world of all.
-Lois Lowry
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Submitting To Censorship Is To Enter The

Lois Lowry
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'the giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. but it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. and that is the most dangerous world of all.
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