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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in ou

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

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Marks on paper are free — free speech — press — pictures all go together I suppose. – Georgia OKeeffe

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