"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

Communication, Giving, Information, Words

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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

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"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

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"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."

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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

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"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."

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"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."

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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."

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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

Tony Robbins, American Author

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"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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