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Anatole France

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

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Anatole France suggests that every government needs some form of oversight or control, and in a society with a free press, this oversight naturally exists through public scrutiny. He also implies that what people call "chance" is actually a way of describing events that happen without a clear, divine explanation, as if God chose not to take credit.

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