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Does that make sense? Great. All right. Jean -Jacques Rousseau, we talked about. We're just going to read a couple sentences from his book, The So..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1824.72, "end": 1889.84, "time_label": "30:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It's one of the fundamental ideas of the French Republic. And that's why in today, there's so much antagonism between Islamists and the government. Okay? Because Islamists want to maintain their tradition. 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