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"ref": "1974, The Think Tank (Are You Being Served?), season 2, episode 3, spoken by \"Captain\" Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton):",
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"ref": "1978, Peter Watson, War on the Mind, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 21:",
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