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We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

William Randolph Hearst

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William Randolph Hearst
Age: 87 †
Born: 1863
Born: April 29
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
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