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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying th

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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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

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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. – Hermann Hesse

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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon

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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. – Basho

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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. – Steven Spielberg

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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. – Adolf Loos

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