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Tom Stoppard

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

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Tom Stoppard is expressing his support for a society that functions in the best possible way, where conditions and systems are arranged to achieve the highest good. He values the idea of improving social structures to reach an ideal state rather than accepting the status quo.

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