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"HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge..."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
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Personal Development
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
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Personal Development
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
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Personal Development
"Take care of your words and the words will take care of you."
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Personal Development
"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors."
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Personal Development
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
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Personal Development
"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
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Personal Development
"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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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Inspirational
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
Creativity
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
Forgiveness
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
Health
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
Ethics
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
Man
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