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TCS: Choose Your Bread and Your Company
Good Morning! ______________________________ “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if … Continue reading
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TCS: Anything Could Be Real … All the Frontiers End With a Question
Good Morning! ______________________________ “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman ________________ “Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and … Continue reading
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TCS: The World of the Knowing
Good Morning! ______________________________ “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” ― Tommy Smothers ________________ “Few people have to watch their country die. I have had that dubious privilege, and I can tell … Continue reading
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Tagged Poets Born in March, TCS, The World of the Knowing
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TCS: How I Became a Woman – Poems for Women’s History Month
Good Morning! ______________________________ “… this bullet had no innocence, did not wish anyone well, you can’t tell us otherwise by naming it mildly, this bullet was never the friend of life, should not be granted immunity by soft saying … Continue reading
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TCS: Sounds We Cannot Hear But Understand in Motion
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Banning things gives them more power and mystique than they had previously. Tell someone they can’t see something, and you can be sure as soon as you do they will be far more motivated to seek it … Continue reading
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TCS: I Heard This Morning On The News
Good Morning! ______________________________ “If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation.” — Norman Cousins ________________ “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant … Continue reading
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TCS: When I Was Harmless and Didn’t Know Any Better
Good Morning! ______________________________ “The young always have the same problem ─ how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.” — Quentin Crisp ________________ “the stars … Continue reading
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Tagged Poets Born In February, TCS
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TCS: Stars Dazzle in Some Other Part of This World
Good Morning! ______________________________ “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” — Hermann Hesse ________________ “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his … Continue reading
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TCS: One Music With a Thousand Cadences
Good Morning! ______________________________ “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky, U.S. Poet Laureate (1991-1992) ________________ “Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence … Continue reading
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TCS: Half-Forgotten Truths and Reconsidering Happiness
Good Morning! ______________________________ “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke, 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner ________________ Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker, author … Continue reading
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