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"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth."
"Language is insight itself."
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself."
"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."
"Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!"
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."
"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant."
"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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"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."
"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."
"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
"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."
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