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Tue 29 Jan 2019

Speak

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, speech
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Random quote of the day:

“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind—even if your voice shakes.”

—Maggie Kuhn, Maggie Kuhn: A Dialogue, ed. Dieter T. Hessel

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 18 Feb 2016

Isolation

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, society, speech
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Random quote of the day:

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Thu 8 Dec 2011

La la la la la la la

Posted by PJ under liberty, quote of the day, speech
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Random quote of the day:

 

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

—George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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