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"Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
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"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
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"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
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"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
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"If you want to appear more confident-speak slowly, articulately, clearly, and deliberately. Communicating with clarity will not only help you build more confidence in yourself, but it will inspire respect from others."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"I'll tell you a piece of news - I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell."
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"All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it."
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"Be careful what you say and do around a writer, your words and actions may become material."
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"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"
Mortality
"Ruin and recovery are both from within."
Healing
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
Wisdom
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Courage
"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
Purpose
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
Philosophy
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
Philosophy
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
Success
"We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things."
Philosophy
"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."
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