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"For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions."
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Source: The Sciences of the Artificial. Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.
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