Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Author : William Shakespeare
