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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."

"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand."

"The unsaid rules every conversation."

"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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