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	Right Speech: the importance of our words

abailart

11-29-2007 8:41 AM

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noble eightfold path, buddhism, right speech

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11-29-2007 11:38 AM

tidbit2

this is like clipmarks ethic of civility

11-30-2007 11:14 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

I was doing pretty well until I reached this bit:

talk only when necessary

Hence this comment.

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