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• With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Views, Korea

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• I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

  Conor Oberst

  Long, Way, Feels

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• On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Sound, Attention

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• The spirit of International Geneva is not only a catchword. It stands for Switzerland's commitment to advance international cooperation and dialogue - and we make every effort to ensure that the dynamics of the Geneva spirit are real.

  Didier Burkhalter

  Real, Commitment, Effort

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• The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Character, Verbs

  Elmore Leonard (2007). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, William Morrow

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• Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, People, Should

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• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Country, War, Media

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• Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Plato, Play, Bears

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• I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Want, Way

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.164, Penguin

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• In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Speech, Tests

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Character, Writing, Hands

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• In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Writing, Lines

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• Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

  Plato, Teaching, Writing

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• We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.

  Tim McDonald

  Challenges, Mind, Needs

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• I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

  Orson Scott Card

  Religion, Hungry, Lord

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• I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Self

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• For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

  Jacques Chirac

  Kyoto Protocol, Humanity, Acting

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• Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Latin, Humble

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• We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Voice

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

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Communication, Two, People

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• We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

  David Cameron

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Century

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• By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

  Bruce Edwards Ivins

  Blood, Needs, Jew

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• Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

  Johan Galtung

  Degrees, Elements, World

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