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It would, indeed, be hardly beyond the mark to affirm that a list of the opinions condemned as wrong or dangerous would be a list of the commonplaces of our time.
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Harold J. Laski
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Here, Laski suggests that many ideas once deemed dangerous have become accepted norms over time.
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