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'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.
Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton
Born: Jun 19, 1968

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Listening, Care, Free, Free Speech, Attention, Without, Being, Used, Being Used, Speech

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Alan Watts, Francis Bacon, George Henry Lewes, Herbert Spencer, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes

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