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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 25, 2015
Millennium Three, please learn, and learn fast, that the regimented years whisk us off fast enough, as do antagonisms of chance, want, hunger, crime, fire, flood, earthquake, and killing winds. Nature ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 18, 2015
The fact is that schools have always been influenced, if not controlled, by the best or worst ideals of national character, a process that conveys to pupils and indoctrinates in them the elements whic ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 11, 2015
The military mind likes nothing better than a chance to experiment, to rehearse, test and prove new weapons under optimum conditions. The guinea pig in these experiments is always world peace, and the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 4, 2015
The census-takers tell us that so-and-so many billions live here and there, and give us percentages of this and that—but no count is made of moist lips and caressing hands, of games played in the play ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 27, 2015
Between what could be and what is are barbed wire and tank traps, walls, armed borders, reconnaissance patrols, old wounds and new suspicions, hatred, fear, corruption, ignorance, intolerance, cold wa ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 20, 2015
There are no inexorable laws in art. The laws are made to be broken, creatively. And when there is an unvarying obedience to laws of that kind, you invite a kind of stagnation. From the book, “ ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 13, 2015
The writer who labors at elegance and preens himself on arcane language, knows that he is placing a screen between himself and his reader. “Pilpul ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 6, 2015
Ah, well, there are no rents or levies in cardboard housing; the only taxes are on health and dignity. Certain amenities are absent, such as walls and a roof, yet the floor is always firm—authentic si ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 30, 2015
Avoidance of pain sounds attractive, but it easily translates into avoidance of responsibility, a running away from the very realities to which we must we must be educated, and against which we would ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 23, 2015
My worry is that we are on a course of decline, notwithstanding our armaments and our per capita income and the number of telephones and automobiles we have. From the book, “Years of the Electr ...
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