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Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.
James H. Billington
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James H. Billington
Age: 89 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 1
Died: 2018
Died: November 20
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
James Billington
James Hadley Billington
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