Carolina QuotesThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 6 (p. 47)
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
- locator
- p. 47
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