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• With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Children, Honesty, Mistake

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.

  Alice Eve

  Hurt, Nice, Details

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Thinking, People, Competition

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Sight, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

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• We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Country, Aunt

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.292, The Floating Press

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• How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Tongue, Has Beens

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Two, Soul

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• Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Want, Too Much, Taste

  Henry Van Dyke (1908). “Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness”

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Tragedy, Pessimism

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.

  Tom Arnold

  Carbon Footprint, Tools, Enabling

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• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  Valerie Harper

  Character, Cities, Body

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• If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Art, Sculpture, Literature

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.77

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• Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

  Dany Heatley

  Reflection, Decision, Environment

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• How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

  Po Bronson

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  Hayley Atwell

  Art, Communication, Talking

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• Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Home, Mind

  "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.

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• What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Gardening

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

  Susan Jacoby

  Women, Heart, Emotional

  Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

  Sebastian Junger

  Thinking, Inspire, Journalism

  "Director Sebastian Junger Talks RESTREPO Follow-Up KORENGAL, Helping People Understand the Realistic Effects of War, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 14, 2014.

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• It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

  Darrell Green

  Hey, Warrants, Deserve

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• A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

  Livingston Taylor

  Audience, Performances

  Livingston Taylor (2000). “Stage Performance”

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