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  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Keeping Promises, Gossip

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers

  Talking, May, Language

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• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Silence, Conversation

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Trust, Easy, 7 Habits

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Humor, Beer

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Failure, Humor

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• If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Resolution, Win Win, Dialogue

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• When Communication with others is from love to love... it is deeply satisfying and healthy.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Healthy, Satisfying

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• Too much agreement kills a chat.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Funny, Agreement, Too Much

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.56, Macmillan

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• The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ideas, Mind, Democracy

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• Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Mind, Looks

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  William S. Burroughs

  People, Silence, Scary

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Struggle, People, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Learning

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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• The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Feelings, World

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• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Fire, Language

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 1 (1942)

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• It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

  Allison Mackie

  Dream, Light, People

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• The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

  Paul Volcker

  Moving, Differences, Degrees

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• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Language And Power, Stones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Education, Money, Healthy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4809, Delphi Classics

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• The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Effective Listening, Essentials

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• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Heart, Men

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• Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Bridges, Numbers, People

  "The Proverbial Wisdom of Earl Sweatshirt". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2015.

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