"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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As quoted in Communications and History : Theories of Knowledge, Media and Civilization (1988) by Paul Heyer, p. 125
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Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 β 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.
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