Assembly Quotes - Page 15

• This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

  E. O. Wilson

  Years, Storm, World

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by Edward O. Wilson, 1992.

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Vices, Amplification

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.56, Modern Library

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• Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.

  Garry Wills

  Football, Prayer, Real

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• Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Speech, Serious, Injury

  Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 1927.

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