violence = 'personal or social domination of any kind'

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Nov 13 23:17:16 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The First Amendment

Oh, yeah? Well, the First Amendment also says

"... peaceably to assemble..."

and *not*

"... to peaceably assemble..."

and nobody cares. (Well, *I* do. I refuse to disrespect the twelve
years that I spent learning the rules of proper English. ;-))

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity,
or evil intent, we can uncumber ourselves of the impossible burden of
trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition
that we could be in error, without necessarily deeming ourselves
idiotic or unworthy.
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