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“Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.”

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Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.”

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Author:Rebecca West

“Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?”

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Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays