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“Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuve...”
“We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some little chore. I ca...”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do w...”
“A true leader should have the power to begin, the eloquence to communicate, the patience to execute and the wisdom to evaluate. Without one, he remains a slave to he who possesses it.”
“Compassion and communication are both incredibly important in relationships, but most of us use these at the wrong time. If we communicate, it's only in times of conflict, allowing repressed emotio...”
“The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is rew...”
“Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!”
“Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.”
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they wan...”
“Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.”
“All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take pla...”
“When we change the way we communicate, we change society”
“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind o...”
“Im trying to think about what I can do. But instead all that comes to mind are the things I cant do. How do we judge truth and goodness? Where are justice and righteousness hiding? A society that i...”
“When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessnes...”
“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”
“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of p...”
“Words have power.”
“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
