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|1900s
|339340
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|2000s
|1949
|“The most gifted of [the public], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.” - George Orwell, ''1984''.
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|time sink
|1991
|this term originated at [[MIT]] to describe a programming class which consumed enormous amounts of students' time
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|time-tested