That question took me all the way back to that great revolutionary and thinker, Tom Paine.

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Parrot is an English radical he reads Tom Paine and spits on the ancient regime who is obsessed by art.

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Common Sense was written by an unprepossessing former girdle-maker named Tom Paine.

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Still quoting Tom Paine: "He sees his species not with the inhuman idea of a natural enemy" you're either with us or against us, no.

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