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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.


John Wesley Powell


#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.


Glenn Greenwald


#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...


Mario Vargas Llosa


#age

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.


Jean Philippe Rameau


#origin #singing #speech #verse

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.


David Remnick


#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.


Mary Lou Retton


#attitude #bring #her #i #i love

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.


Tiffany Madison


#criminal #eternal-life #freedom #freedom-of-speech-dissent #freedom-of-thought

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.


Pete Wilson


#amendment #available #cloak #constitutional #constitutional right

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.


Nick Cohen


#free-speech #age

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.


Ambrose Bierce


#angry #best #ever #make #regret






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