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  • True North – Speech

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    A speech by Abraham Lincoln (played by the amazing Daniel Day Lewis) to the Congressman Thaddeus Stevens from the Pennsylvania (played by the equally amazing Tommy Lee Jones) This whole scene, heck the whole movie shows why democracy often takes… Read More ›

  • Words

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    I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when… Read More ›

  • Wilderness

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    Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh (February 4, 1902, Detroit, MI – August 26, 1974, Kipahulu, Hawaii) A brief entry from his biography page: Conservation movement Lindbergh traveled widely and developed an interest in the cultures… Read More ›

  • Writer – Speech

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    From a movie I have not seen yet, but I just might look it up now, Up the Down Staircase. Not much about the actor Paul Bedford who delievered this speech. Paul Barringer: They say a writer should stick to… Read More ›