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• Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

  Edward M Hays

  Christmas, Hymns, Cards

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• Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Love, Feelings, Acting

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.

  Audre Lorde

  Philosophy, Oneness, Air

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Twenties, Fundamentals

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• I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

  Jessye Norman

  Life Lesson, Communication, Reading

  "Jessye Norman: By the Book". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Knowledge, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.534, Modern Library

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• Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

  Eric Baum

  Science, World, Dynamics

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• I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Believe, Writing, Giving

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• He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Dancer, Twelve

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

  Megan McCafferty

  Minutes, No Point

  Megan McCafferty (2002). “Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Wise, Learning, Space

  "A Case against the GO TO Statement" by Edsger Dijkstra, 1968.

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• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Differences, Silence, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Cohabitation, Faces

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• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Talking, Names, Enlightened

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• I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

  John Larroquette

  Book, Play, Letters

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• I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

  Josh Henderson

  Cutting, Men, Two

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  People, Mind, Clay

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• I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, Issues, Laughing

  "Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 1987.

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• Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet.

  Rachel Caine

  Moving, Ninja, Certificates

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.50, Penguin

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• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

  Martin Amis

  Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

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• School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

  Amber Heard

  School, College, Awards

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• Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

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• An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mean, Writing, Reality

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• I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Art, Writing, Receiving

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

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• This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Valentines Day, Letters, Happy Day

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.45, Conari Press

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