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To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

Gerry Spence

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Gerry Spence
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
Lawyer
Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
Goal
Success
Bloom
Doe
Freely
Children
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Credibility is what it is ALL about.
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.
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I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
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Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
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The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
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Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
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Words that do not create images should be discarded.
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Without argument the species would parish.
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Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
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Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
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A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
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The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
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Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
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It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
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The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
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The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.
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