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"I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind."
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"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?"
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
"When you talk, use words that inspire you and others."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a natural communicator and know exactly what, when, why, and how to speak so that your message is conveyed and received as you intend?"
"Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily."
"A very unwise man once said, "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." A very annoyed woman once said, "He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long."
"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
"The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about."
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"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed."
"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
"The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well."
"I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude."
"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
"One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand."
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