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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

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"One must steer, not talk."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

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"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."

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"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

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"But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes."

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"If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting."

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