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Whenever A Theory Appears To You As The Only Possible One, Take This As A Sign That You Have Neither Understood The Theory Nor The Problem Which It Was Intended To Solve.

There Is No History Of Mankind, There Is Only An Indefinite Number Of Histories Of All Kinds Of Aspects Of Human Life.

It Can't Happen Here Is Always Wrong: A Dictatorship Can Happen Anywhere.

While Differing Widely In The Various Little Bits We Know, In Our Infinite Ignorance We Are All Equal.

The Open Society Is One In Which Men Have Learned To Be To Some Extent Critical Of Taboos, And To Base Decisions On The Authority Of Their Own Intelligence.