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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."
"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
"Spoken words have power beyond measure."
"It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
"Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception."
"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?"
"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
"When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts."
"If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused. Never complain about anyone. He who brings a complaint is at fault, you should understand that first, then comes next, the talk about the accused."
"They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline."
"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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