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—KAMO NO CHOMEI, 12th Century Japanese

recluse

And compare them to proverbs from

the West:

Be a craftsman in speech that thou

mayest be strong, for the strength of

one is the tongue, and speech is mightier

than all fighting.

—MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP, 2400 B.C.E.

Speech is civilization itself. The word,

even the most contradictory word, preserves

contact—it is silence which

isolates.

—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

What lies behind these starkly different

attitudes? One answer is the

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