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The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

Wayne Grudem

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Wayne Grudem
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 11
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