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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 14, 2024
In addition to making little of big things, trivialization can also make big of little things. A classic example out of ancient history was the Trojan war, fought for over ten years, we are told, over ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 7, 2024
I have always suspected that war as we know it and have practiced it and as others have practiced it, that young men die of the mistakes of old men. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview wi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 30, 2024
The due rank of peace is proudest above all earthly dignities. Believe it, and ensue it so. “Not Choose Not” from the book Overkill and Megalove (1963) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 23, 2024
The relationship between media and politics is one that is flexible and responds to the political situation. In a time of reaction, the media tend to be drugged by, influenced by, the government’s att ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 16, 2024
Mediocrity is a business, like making low-quality shirts for low-income consumers at a low price. With this important difference—mediocrity cuts across all arts and professions, all layers of society, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 9, 2024
Sex as a source of pleasure, as distinct from its services to procreation, has been frowned upon, openly or tacitly, by the establishment. But at the same time, violence as an instrument of national p ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 2, 2024
This country was fortunate in having been created by a band of courageous, idealistic, intelligent men. There are few countries that can point to their origins with the same sense of pride that we can ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 26, 2024
We print your name on dollars And are sure you stand over everything we say is under God And all nations assume you are on their side and always have been, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 19, 2024
The ear is the organ through which we perceive the subtlest of the arts, which is music. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 12, 2024
We are pious about the right to dissent except where it crosses church or state, offends company management, is critical of the Pentagon, the presidency, the two-party system, congressional committees ...
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