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No state can suppress the human impulse of curiosity, and there is always a special delight, a kind of psychological scarcity-value, in knowledge of the forbidden.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that the human impulse for curiosity cannot be suppressed, especially regarding forbidden knowledge.
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