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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 5, 2014
Just as madmen do not think they are mad, and bores think they are fascinating, pedants are never aware of their pedantry. “Pilpul ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 28, 2014
So all in all we have been careless caretakers of our ward. We have slashed forests, dirtied skies, drained wetlands, overgrazed pastures, stunted mountains, acidified rain, degraded rivers, turned ci ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 21, 2014
A question to ask at the edge of a new millennium: What other nation, before or since, has ever called out, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” “Our L ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 14, 2014
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 September 7, 2014
War …the fiercest face in the rogue’s gallery of world problems—king of the beasts—and trailing behind it, Disease, Famine, Poverty, Erosion, Overpopulation…but every one of these problems has been ar ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 31, 2014
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 24, 2014
To trivializers, God is a resource and religion is a technique, and the combo is unbeatable. “Religion” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 17, 2014
War has the voice of a million muzzles, and where it speaks, dust hangs in the air for weeks. Violence is consummate, no worm is safe; the bomb digs deeper than the mole. All creatures living in earth ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 10, 2014
They’ve spilled their blood for the rights of men, For people the likes of me and you And they ask that we do not fail them again In the days we are coming to. “14 August” broadcast August 14, 1945 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 3, 2014
The word had authority. And ideas had authority. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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