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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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It's Never My Custom to Use Words Lightly

Mandela: "If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are" We're looking for a quote from Mandela. He says that when you have the freedom of speech, you perhaps learn to appreciate it much more than you did when you had it. And that's the sense i get from him. You really learn to to understand the power of words.

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