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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

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Norman Angell
Age: 92 †
Born: 1874
Born: December 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
Economist
Journalist
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Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Political Scientist
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Holbeach
Lincolnshire
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The evil was not in either ideal the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.
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