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> [The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-secret-dread-of-modern-intellectuals-liberals-and-conservatives/)

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