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  • Freedom – Speech

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    Great words from a great movie, The Devil and Daniel Webster. A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a compact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract. Daniel Webster: Gentlemen of the jury,… Read More ›

  • Books

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    There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran… Read More ›

  • Luck

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    I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) From Wikipedia: Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of… Read More ›

  • Jap – Speech

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    From the mini-series The Pacific A 10-part mini-series from the creators of “Band of Brothers” telling the intertwined stories of three Marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. John Basilone: Slap a Jap?… Read More ›