Speak

Jan. 29th, 2019 12:43 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind—even if your voice shakes.”

—Maggie Kuhn, Maggie Kuhn: A Dialogue, ed. Dieter T. Hessel

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Isolation

Feb. 18th, 2016 10:21 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

 

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

—George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

 

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

—George Orwell, Preface to Animal Farm

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Not that there is a light side to the Iranian crisis, but this article from the New York Times does give another angle to the attempts of governments to censor the Internet, and by extension, Iran. The subtitle could be, "How Cute Cats and Soccer Laid the Groundwork for Revolution." Freedom of speech isn't as easy to quash as it once was. The next time I get outraged over blogger abuse of Whatever, I'll try to remind myself of that.

Interesting article, but as Archaeoblog (where I got the story) said, I just wanted an excuse to post this:

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