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— Roger Scruton"The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living."
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With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
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