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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 15, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 15, 2015

One of the ironies among the uncoded prescripts of moral justice is that greed, which constantly seeks increase and is rarely content with abundance, ends up by decreasing the gre ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 8, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 8, 2015

Orthodoxy, sacred as it may be to subscribing theologians, is the fast friend of mediocrity, since it removes incentive to think. An army is a model of orthodoxy; it is made up mo ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2015

There is something distracting about a phantom of delight who radiates sexuality, filling us in on murder, rape, inflations, corruption, terror, bigotry, turpitude and sports. New ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 25, 2015

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 ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 18, 2015

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 t ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 11, 2015

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 ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 4, 2015

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 gam ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 27, 2015

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, ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 20, 2015

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. ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 13, 2015

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 “Triviali ...

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