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"The old idea of the intellectual as the one who speaks truth to power is still an idea worth holding on to." -- Salman Rushdie

I can't help thinking that clinging too tightly to this ideal is what gets me into hot water. :)

Thomas Moore, in Utopia gives an eloquent example why someone who has good advice to give that goes against the grain of the ruling powers shouldn't bother to give it:
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