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• To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Heart, People

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Listen to God”, Harper Collins

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  Edgar Degas

  Understanding, Charming, Specialists

  Edgar Degas (1948). “Letters”

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• We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Philosophy, Serious

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 5, 1932.

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• The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

  Alice Munro

  Kissing, Fearless, Subtle

  Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House

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• I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Simple, Hands, Humanity

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• I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Country, Sainthood, World

  Gerald R. Ford's speech to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as quoted in "The New York Times", May 4, 1974.

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• I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Smart, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Littles, Little Man

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

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• My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

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• A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

  Tina Turner

  Symphony, Heaven, Inspirational Music

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  Earl Warren

  Men, Law, Liberty

  "The Court Years, 1939-1975 : The Autobiography of William O. Douglas", (p. 514), 1980.

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• And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

  Patricia Heaton

  Husband, Scripts, Easy

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• In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

  Armstrong Williams

  Washington Dc, Politics, Casual

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• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  Venus Williams

  Friends, Sports, Party

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• The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

  Virginia Woolf

  Romantic, Cutting, Romance

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

  Diane Sawyer

  Commitment, Ordinary, Ongoing

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• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  Xavier Becerra

  Drinking, Kids, Decision

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• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  Naomi Watts

  Women, Wine, Love Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  Paul Lynde

  Eight, Small Numbers, House

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• I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, Talking, America

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• When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Listening, May

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• Debate is the death of conversation.

  Emil Ludwig

  Argument, Debate, Contention

  "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications". Book by Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller, 1997.

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• He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Wind, Wings, Literature

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