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"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."
"Without emotion, all thoughts or words are powerless."
"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."
"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
"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."
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."
"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."
"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."
"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."
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