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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Thomas E. Mann

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Thomas E. Mann
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 10
Non-Fiction Writer
Political Scientist
University Teacher
Milwaukee City
Wisconsin
Contradiction
Contact
Speech
Civilization
Silence
Word
Isolates
Even
Contradictions
Preserves

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