Quote by Deborah Tannen
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. -

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. – Deborah Tannen

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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. – Deborah Tannen

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alone
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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship. – Deborah Tannen

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relationship
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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. – Alexander Graham Bell

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power

I dont think Ive ever been an agnostic. Ive always thought theres a superior power, that this is not the real world and that theres a world to come. – Bob Dylan

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power

A mans true state of power and riches is to be in himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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power

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith

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power

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Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Integrity

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. – Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

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Grammar

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Caution

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. – Ernst Fischer