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The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

James C. Scott

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James C. Scott
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 2
Anarchist
Anthropologist
Political Scientist
Northampton
New Jersey
James Scott
James Campbell Scott
Income
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Certainly
Freedom
Speak
Democratically
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Distributed
Openly
Gossip

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