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#disapproval — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

    We need to dare disturb the universe by not being manipulated or frightened by judgmental groups who assume the right to insist that if we do not agree with them, not only do we not understand but we are wrong. How dull the world would be if we all had to feel the same way about everything, if we all had to like the same books, dislike the same books.

    Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
    Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

    More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/826…

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  2. A quotation from Horace

    We learn more quickly and bring back to mind more readily
    The things we laugh at than those we respect and revere.
     
    [Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
    Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 1 “To Augustus,” l. 262ff (2.1.262-263) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/81900/

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