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"No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
"Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together."
"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."
"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
"Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session, you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer."
"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."
"When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form."
"WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained."
"The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there."
"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
"The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect.In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation."
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