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• Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

  Bernard Werber

  Believe, Thinking, Understanding

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• A different language is a different vision of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Work, Learning

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Two, People, Principles

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• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Hollywood, Engagement

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Order, Voice

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

  James Whistler

  Talking, People, Impossible

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• A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mean, Power, May

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, (p. 595), 2012.

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• I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Talking

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Philosophical, Soul

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Kids, Wish

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• The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

  Earl Warren

  Fields, Privacy, Fantasy

  Concurring in the judgment, Lopez v. United States 373 U.S. 427, 1963.

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• Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Should, Conversation, Meaningful Conversations

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)”, p.57, Mondial

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• Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Law, Community, Language

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.71, Columbia University Press

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, People, Hanging On

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• The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

  Henri Delacroix

  Thought Provoking, Language, Individual

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• I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Lines, My Children

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• Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

  Deborah Tannen

  Life Is, Conversation, Persons

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

  Laurence J. Peter

  Mean, Worry, World

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• [A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Powerful, Healing, Talking

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Thinking, Interesting

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• The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

  Richard Thompson

  Achievement, Records, Audience

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2001.

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• Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain

  Tina Louise

  Space, Brain, Receiving

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• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beauty, Writing, Native Language

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Words You Speak, Speech

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Mind, Different

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