“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
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Marcel Proust
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Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Stephen Covey
2 quotes“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”
Ben Jonson
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 quotes“Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.”
H. G. Wells
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Bill Watterson
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John Dewey
1 quote“Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.”