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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."
"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."
"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."
"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"
"Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are."
"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
"I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress."
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