"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."

Freedom, Censorship, Truth, Expression

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"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."

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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

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