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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Quote of the Day (Thomas Mann, on Why Speech is ‘Civilization Itself’)
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the
most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.”—German
novelist and Nobel Literature laureate Thomas Mann (1875-1955), The Magic Mountain (1924)
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