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“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 鈥榖right,鈥� did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn鈥檛 it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451

“We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water

“Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch
Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican鈥檚 day”
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Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch
Fishes pray for them to fly far away
Inland lakes toast to the Pelican鈥檚 day”
―

“People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.”
― Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
― Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
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