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"Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker."

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About Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas known for his defense of liberalism and value pluralism. Born in Riga on 1909-06-06, he became influential through essays such as Two Concepts of Liberty and through his work on intellectual history. He died in Oxford on 1997-11-05.

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