"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

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"When having lunch or dinner at a long rectangular table, I prefer to take a middle chair so that I can turn to my left or to my right to make meaningful conversation with the people in attendance. When I have been seated at the very end, it can prove to be difficult to speak, hear, and connect with everyone there. Think ahead, and whenever possible, put yourself in the middle of the action!"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Conversation, Connection, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can make or break the outcome of your entire conversation. Been there, done that, right?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you."

Paul Lynde, American Comedian

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"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

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"During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

Rebecca West, Irish Author

Conversation, Illusion

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."

Francis Lockier, American Composer

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"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

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"Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can make or break the outcome of your entire conversation. Been there, done that, right?"

"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."

"The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you."

"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."

"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."

"During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job."

"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."

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"A man convinced against his will is not convinced."

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street."

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."

"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."

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