Quote by Joshua Foer
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever en

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. – Joshua Foer

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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

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Science
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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when were idling in front of our computer screens. – Joshua Foer

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Age
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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience
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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. – John Marshall

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communication

Mental communication without verbalization… all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain. – Tina Louise

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communication

What is music anyway? Its a form of communication, and thats why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people. – Kenny G

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communication

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. – Bernard Baruch

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communication

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Im terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. – Oliver Stone

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movies

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, its at the bottom. Its the people who are in school systems that dont educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. – Clarence Thomas

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Society

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. – Jean Paul Richter

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Adversity

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. – Pauline Hanson

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