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Conversation
would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not
know. ·
~ Andre Maurois
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We do not talk
-- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings
of newspapers, magazines and digests. ·
~ Henry Miller
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Can we talk? ·
~ Joan Rivers ~ ·
Not only to say
the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment. ·
~ George Sala ~ ·
The techniques
of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the
best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who
seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear
the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong
directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. ·
~ John
Steinbeck ~ ·
One of the very
best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company
wish had been left unsaid. ·
~ Jonathan
Swift ~ ·
Conversation is
an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ·
~ Source
Unknown ~ ·
There is no
such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting
monologues, that is all. ·
~ Rebecca West
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Print 'um & pass 'um around!
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If other people
are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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~ James Mcneill
Whistler ~
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Prejudice
squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
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~ Duchess
Abrantes ~
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All colors will
agree in the dark.
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~ Francis Bacon
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It is not the
simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition
of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of
enlightenment, but of boredom.
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~ Quentin Crisp
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He who never
leaves his country is full of prejudices
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~ Carlo Goldoni
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Man associates
ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his
pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but
prejudices.
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~ Remy De
Gourmont ~
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No wise man can
have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a
certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in
the end prove wiser than he.
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~ William
Hazlitt ~
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The mind of a
bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it
will contract.
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~ Oliver
Wendell Holmes ~
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Reasoning
against prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner,
without visibly affecting the prejudice.
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~ Mildmay ~
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A great many
people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices.
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~ Edward R.
Murrow ~
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We still live
in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe
that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
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~ Rosalyn
Sussman ~
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Our prejudices
are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.
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~ Source
Unknown ~
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Prejudices are
what fools use for reason.
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~ Voltaire ~
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don't want
anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
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~ Antonio
Banderas ~
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It costs to be
stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
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~ Sherrill
Brown ~
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To be clever
enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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~ Gilbert K.
Chesterton ~
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Only two things
are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former.
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~ Albert
Einstein ~
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The two most
abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
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~ Harlan
Ellison ~
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The question
now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of
character.
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~ John King
Fairbank ~
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We are all born
ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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~ Benjamin
Franklin ~
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Man is the
inventor of stupidity.
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~ Remy De
Gourmont ~
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Stupidity often
saves a man from going mad.
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~ Oliver
Wendell Holmes ~
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Genius may have
its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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~ Elbert
Hubbard ~
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The doctor sees
all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all
the stupidity.
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~ Arthur
Schopenhauer ~
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It was
absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything.
There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since
he thought all questions were stupid.