The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut. – Author Unknown
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As a matter of fact, have you never noticed that most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness? – Margaret Millar, The Weak-Eyed Bat, 1942
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Basically you are like two parallel lines which never meet. Dialogue seems to be impossible. All is monologue — you are talking to yourself and the other is talking to himself. Two monologues together look like a dialogue only in appearance. – Osho, The Revolution: Talks on Kabir, 1979
Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes… – George Eliot, “Borne Along by the Tide,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobodys right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. – William J. Clinton
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there…. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. – Edward Abbey
