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• Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Distance, Writing

  Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

  William Penn

  Glasses, Sea, Faces

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Real, Character

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.844, Simon and Schuster

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• The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

  Ann Patchett

  College, Matching, Sound

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• I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

  Lawrence Hill

  Men, Years, Two

  Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Blessing, Able

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• Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Intelligent, Years

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• Trust me, it takes talent to converse with a cat

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Cat, Talent, Trust Me

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• We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

  Jones Very

  Relationship, Greatness, Unions

  jones very (1839). “assays and poems”, p.39

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• In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Europe, Long, People

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• The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Design, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.243, Bantam Classics

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Eye, Thinking

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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• Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

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• Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

  Alexander Pope

  Knaves, Next

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

  William H. Gass

  Doe, Elements, World

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

  James F. Cooper

  Principles, Visionaries, Way

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

  Rebecca West

  Desire, Different, Succeed

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• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

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• A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Voice, Feelings

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• Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

  Ueda Akinari

  Heart, Men, Shapes

  "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.

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• It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Giving, Levels

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• All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

  John Berridge

  Heart, Secret, Decay

  John Berridge (1838). “The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs”, p.424

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• My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's "More Than Words" at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

  Ed Helms

  Football, Stars, Looks

  "Hangover Helper". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 27, 2011.

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• A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that 'boys don't cry' and it's embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, 'hysterical', or 'hormonal', is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.

  Laura Bates

  Suicide, Fighting, Men

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