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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand."

"The unsaid rules every conversation."

"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity."

"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
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"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"

"Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."

"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."

"Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set."

"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."

"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
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