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Communication |
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"The most important thing in
communication is to hear what isn't being said." |
| -- Peter F(erdinand) Drucker (b. 1909), Austrian writer, author, educator |
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| "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and
just as hard to sleep after." |
| -- Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
(b. 1906), American aviator, writer |
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| “The
medium is the message.” |
| -- Marshall McLuhan |
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| "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only
officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the
secret unconscious life." |
| -- Allen
Ginsberg |
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| "Sometimes a scream is better than a
thesis." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm." |
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-- Calvin Coolidge |
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| "The fantastic advances in the field of communication
constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual." |
| -- Earl Warren (1891-1974),
American jurist, chief justice of US Supreme Court |
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| "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless." |
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-- Mother Teresa |
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"Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use
the editorial 'we.' "
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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| "Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast
beef." |
| -- Tom Robbins |
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| "The limits of my language means the limits of my world." |
| -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
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| "The strong man is the one who is able to
intercept at will the communication between the senses and the
mind." |
| -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| "Interpreter: One who enables two persons
of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each
what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other
to have said." |
| -- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's
Dictionary |
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| "Language exists only on the surface of
our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in
silence and in the ability to express oneself." |
| -- Franz Xavier Kroetz |
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| "If we could picture all communication,
whether animal or human, as electrical colored waves we would truly
have before us the real World Wide Web." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "We are armed with language adequate to
describe each leaf of the field, but not to describe human
character." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
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| "There is more than a verbal tie between
the words common, community, and communication.... Try the
experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some
experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and
you will find your own attitude toward your experience
changing." |
| -- John Dewey (1859-1952), American philosopher |
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