“Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.”
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Marcel Proust
2 quotes“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Marshall McLuhan
2 quotes“The medium is the message.”
Ben Jonson
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H. G. Wells
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Ursula K. LeGuin
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Thomas Mann
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Aristophanes
1 quote“Open your mind before your mouth”
André Gide
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