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"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."
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"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"
"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."
"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."
"Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish."
"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."
"Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!"
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
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