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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 16, 2014
Numbers. The stuff of astronomy, commerce, and body counts: A thousand—a hundred thousand—a million—ten million—thirty million—tidy figures, simple to write, easy to say, but hard to understand or eve ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 9, 2014
We learned out of World War II that we had learned nothing out of World War I. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 2, 2014
To win is great; to learn from winning, greater—but to put the lessons learnt from winning hard to work, that is the neatest trick of all. “On A Note Of Triumph” broadcast May 8 and again May13, 194 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 23, 2014
Now a compound fracture is a wicked thing, and so is a missing part. For Nature, in all her wisdom and notwithstanding her proven generosity, Made no allowances for blast. “There Will Be Time L ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 16, 2014
There is no term in radio that is equivalent to couch potato or boob tube because the radio listener had to collaborate with what he was hearing as one collaborates with the author of a book when you’ ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 9, 2014
Lobbyist have the right legally to lobby their heads off directly to the public—through media, barnstorming speeches, and all channels open to free speech—but corporation contributions to candidates w ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 2, 2014
Well for one thing, knights are very hard on giants. Merely to be a giant is an abominable wrong, a grievously conspicuous sign of evil. And giants must have magnificent names, which makes them even w ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 26, 2014
Not only are you not isolated in the world, but the world you’re not isolated in, is getting smaller and smaller. “Citizen of the World” broadcast July 10, 1949 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 19, 2014
I think that the Golden Age of Radio was the shortest golden age in history. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 12, 2014
That’s how to prepare a race for slavery. Keep them poor, get them drunk, fill them full of cheap music and dirty corrupt entertainment—if they can afford it on their slave wages. “This is War ...
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