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The Power of Words: A Quotation
“Words shape ideas and ideas shape souls.” —Adam Gropnik, The New Yorker columnist Words have fearsome potential, a latent power that tyrant Stalin appreciated and feared. At a banquet for 40 of the leading writers of the Soviet Union in … Continue reading
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