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...such form of media censorship is no new phenomenon; it has been justified on the grounds that certain information is dangerous and can have adverse affects upon the minds of those exposed to it. Musharraf and other government leaders, however, would do well to remember the words of John Milton, penned in 1643 in a treatise against British censorship: “Knowledge cannot defile […] if the will and conscience be not defiled. Bad books […] to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate...
...power to do good is also the power to do harm,” Motley said, quoting famed economist Milton Friedman. “A commitment to economic growth and development should not be compromised in the name of ‘being green...
...Milton, Mass. and Quincy House...
...Philip Pullman is tall and handsome and pink-faced in that way that older Englishmen often are. His conversation easily ranges from theoretical physics to the work of John Milton. He's like one of those wise, stern-but-humorous uncles usually played in movies by Michael Caine or Jim Broadbent. He doesn't look particularly satanic. But then again, neither, probably, does Satan...
...Dark Materials--the phrase comes from Milton's Paradise Lost--takes place in a glinting, shadowy, clockwork version of Edwardian England, with some (very) notable differences. Every human in Pullman's world has a daemon, a kind of talking spirit-animal that goes wherever he or she goes. "They're able to talk to their daemons, much like talking to yourself," Pullman explains over breakfast at his publisher's offices in New York City. "Like having a conversation with your conscience or your memory." In Pullman's world, the church has evolved into a sinister totalitarian bureaucracy called the Magisterium...