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"Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"

"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."

"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."

"Words are the only things that last for ever."

"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."
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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."


"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."


"A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands."
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