Why I Always Favor A Free Marketplace Of Ideas

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;  that, at least one may replace the parent.
—     Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’ve Lost My Share

Ideas aren’t magical;  the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
—     Lynn Abbey
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2013	Don’t Know And Not Telling
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17 Days Until The Next Government Shutdown

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
―    George Bernard Shaw
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Merry Christmas — 2018

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple:  loving others.
—    Bob Hope
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
—    Charles Dickens
[Merry Christmas to all… !!
The image above was “borrowed” from one of the comments I’ve rec’d from a fellow blogger.  Please visit his site if you have a few minutes:  http://pacificparatrooper.wordpress.com/   —    kmab]
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2016	Merry X-mas – 2016
2015	Merry X-mas – 2015
2014	Merry X-mas – 2014
2013	Merry X-mas – 2013
2012	Merry Christmas – 2012
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No Reason To Turn

If you can’t completely eradicate wrong ideas, or deal with inveterate vices as effectively as you wish, that’s no reason for turning your back on public life altogether.  You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
—    Sir (also Saint) Thomas More
From his book:  “Utopia“
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And Blog Posts, Too

One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
––    Michael Cunningham
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Not Sure Anyway…

We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas;  we know we don’t know.
—    Stephen King
From his book:  “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft“
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New And Old

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas.  I’m frightened of old ones.
—    John Cage
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Opposites Attract

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
—    F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We Need To Continue Experimenting

This is a more fruitful approach than trying to erase dialog from the Internet altogether.  We can all agree that material that incites violence doesn’t belong online.  But when ISIS raises questions about the world, you can’t just wipe that from the Internet.  Ideas need to be raised and confronted and disputed.  Right now, it can feel dangerous to challenge extremism online.  ­ People get shouted down, harassed, or worse.  That gives power to the bad guys, because it shuts reasonable people out of the conversation, leaving just the violent voices.
We haven’t seen a terrorist organization as digitally savvy as ISIS before, but when you think about it, much of what it’s doing isn’t all that different from what any teenager can do; you wouldn’t be surprised if your 14-year-old daughter made a video and put it online.  It’s only surprising because we have this idea of terrorists as old, bearded men hiding out in the mountains.  Terrorist groups are evolving like the rest of us.  We need to continue experimenting with solutions that meet these groups where they connect with the rest of the world.
—    Yasmin Green
Quoted by:   Jason Tanz
In his article:  “A To-Do List For The Tech Industry“
Appearing in:  Wired Magazine;  dtd:  November 2016
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Begin Combat

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas.  The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
—    Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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2013	Additions
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