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When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
Approximate author period: c. 2011 AD · contemporary
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- Criss Jami
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- Approximate author period: c. 2011 AD · contemporary
Approximate author period, documented activity in 2011. Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile — edition catalogue. Catalogue identifies Criss Jami, a 2011 CreateSpace edition and ISBN 9781983682148; edition corroborated by Books-A-Million. This documents a writing period, not a quotation's source. This is NOT the composition date of every attributed quotation. Source: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL39982262W/Salom%C3%A9 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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