NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 25, 2024
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 18, 2024
A citizen of the world, when he becomes one, (and there are no formalities about it—it happens gradually, like growing up) lets himself in for a fairly sobering experience. He fin ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 11, 2024
They’re dead as clay for the rights of men, For people the likes of you, And they ask that we do not fail them again Tomorrow, tomorrow. “14 August” as published in the book “Un ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 4, 2024
Canned laughter is a form of self-praise. It has the advantage over external praise of being able to be laid on thickly and in the right places. “Can the Laughter” from the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 28, 2024
But Honorable Judges, the office of pimp is performed by purveyors of distinction, since their labors gratify not merely one, but three parties; to wit, the seeker of recreation; ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 21, 2024
Tell him the choice rests in the care of what fragile peace we have, including his trusteeship, if he but live to his majority. One or nothing, wealth or laying waster; Jew or Gen ...
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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 yea ...
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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 R ...
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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, ...
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