There are those alive in the world that seek to find personal insult in any utterance and a deep wounding in every gesture or glance. Those brittle people only feel better in playing the system to punish those that they believe have punctured them.
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There are some wrongs that are so terrible and so terrifying — and that wound all of humanity so harshly — that they can never be set right in the lifetimes of those who perpetrated, and received, the cruelty.
“Qui tacet consentire videtur” is a Latin phrase the law translates into: “Silence equals consent.”
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“Black” is one of those movies you yearn to see again and again and you can never ever quite get the story out of your head. The movie is a love story of self-discovery and education for a Deaf and Blind woman who does not speak. She lives in an internal darkness. She wants a way out into the light of the world. The box for the special edition of the DVD is pocked with Braille dots you can feel with your fingertips, thus creating a temptation, and an expectation for the drama of learning to come:
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