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[Quote No.51103] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Increasingly constructive doubt [skepticism] is the sign of advancing civilization." - Jerome D. Frank
(1889-1957). Source: 'Law and the Modern Man', 1930.
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[Quote No.51120] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] The 'smart' way to keep people passive and obedient [and the power status quo the same, in a society which you want to continue to appear rather than to really be free and democratic] is to strictly limit [objectively or subjectively censor] the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky
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[Quote No.51123] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance." - Robert Quillen
American journalist
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[Quote No.51133] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It was only a sunny smile,
And little it cost in the giving,
But like morning light,
It scattered the night,
And made the day worth living.
" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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[Quote No.51134] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Just when you may have thought you had nothing or couldn't afford to give anything, give a smile.
" - James Bronner
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[Quote No.51135] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!" - Dolly Parton
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[Quote No.51136] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime." - Steve Maraboli
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[Quote No.51137] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them." - Harvey Mackay
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[Quote No.51138] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A smile is the million-dollar asset in your human relations inventory. If you're not using your smile, you're like a person with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." - Les Giblin
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[Quote No.51142] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator." - George Santayana
(1863-1952), philosopher
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[Quote No.51159] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.
" - Noam Chomsky
In 'Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media', 1992.
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[Quote No.51161] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
Interview by John Pilger on BBC's The Late Show, November 25, 1992.
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[Quote No.51164] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy [and or fraud]." - Joseph Pulitzer
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[Quote No.51165] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Truth and freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Sunlight is the best disinfectant." - William O. Douglas
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[Quote No.51166] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship: political propaganda and media management:] Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - Harry Truman
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[Quote No.51167] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." - Louis D. Brandeis
(1856–1941), U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Quote from Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927).
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[Quote No.51180] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps!" - Argentine Proverb
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[Quote No.51192] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[The five A’s that we all need for ourselves and therefore help our relationships flourish and deepen into loving fulfilment are:] Attention; Acceptance; Appreciation; Affection and Allowance [to be ourselves]!" - David Richo
In his book, 'How To Be An Adult in Relationships'.
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[Quote No.51209] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart." - Marshall B. Rosenberg
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[Quote No.51231] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does." - Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
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[Quote No.51250] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, press and censorship:] You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." - Jessica Mitford
(1917-1996) author, journalist, and civil rights activist
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[Quote No.51253] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." - E.K. Hornbeck [fictional character]
A line delivered by the character E.K. Hornbeck, played by Gene Kelly, in the 1960 film, 'Inherit the Wind'.
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[Quote No.51254] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward." - Finley Peter Dunne
(1867 — 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago.
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[Quote No.51271] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Even small quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal." - Peg Bracken
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[Quote No.51273] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence." - L. E. Landon
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[Quote No.51279] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Considering the researched fact that we judge a person in less than four minutes, and that sixty-five percent of perceived messages are non-verbal, obviously Body Language plays an extremely important role both in daily business and private life. " - Renate Mousseux
Body language expert
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[Quote No.51280] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The key to communication is to speak without offending and listen without defending." - Montel Williams
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[Quote No.51281] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through." - Sydney J. Harris
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[Quote No.51282] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Communication is like playing catch. Catching is as much of a skill as throwing, though it is a skill of a different kind." - Mortimer Adler
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[Quote No.51295] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Look for a way to lift someone up!! If that's all you do, it's enough." - Elizabeth Lesser
American entrepreneur
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[Quote No.51299] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus propaganda and censorship: ...remember when listening to anyone at all, including so-called public servants, politicians, bureaucrats and power elites, to look for their self-interest in their comments:] When a fox preaches, take care of your geese. " - Proverb
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[Quote No.51314] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip." - Terri Guillemets
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[Quote No.51355] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." - Rollo May
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[Quote No.51367] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Freedom of thought, speech, expression and the press and lack of censorship is important or else how can anyone have any hope of making fully informed choices which is necessary for true freedom." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.51395] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"What we've got here is failure to communicate. [This can cause many problems.]" - the captain
Said by the character of the captain, played by actor Strother Martin, in the movie, 'Cool Hand Luke'. Paul Newman repeats the line later in the film, mocking the prison warden, though he says 'a failure', rather than simply 'failure.'
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[Quote No.51441] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"There are two rules to successfully making a speech: 1. Don’t tell people everything you know!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.51522] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Song lyrics: about empathy: 'Can't Smile Without You':]
...I feel glad when you're glad,
I feel sad when you're sad...
" - Barry Manilow
From his song, 'Can't Smile Without You'.
(The 'author' ascribed to this 'quote' is the artist that released this version of the song. It is not necessarily the only artist to release the song nor is it necessarily the only version of the song available. The artist is not necessarily the song's writer, as in the person or persons who wrote the lyrics and music. The above lyrics are obviously the property and copyright of their legal owners. They are provided for educational purposes and personal use only.)
[Refer http://www.metrolyrics.com/cant-smile-without-you-lyrics-barry-manilow.html ]
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[Quote No.51544] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message: be careful what you say, because words can’t be unsaid.] Feathers -
A farmer insulted his neighbor. Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask for forgiveness. The preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the center of town. The farmer did as he was told. Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn't as the feathers had all blown away. When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher said, 'The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather easily but you cannot retrieve them, so be very careful in choosing your words.'
" - Unknown
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[Quote No.51559] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message: focus on praising what can do, rather than criticising what can't.] An Unusual Bird Dog - There was a hunter who bought a bird dog, the only one of its kind in the world. That could walk on water. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw this miracle. At the same time, he was very pleased that he could show off his new acquisition to his friends. He invited a friend to go duck hunting. After some time, they shot a few ducks and the man ordered his dog to run and fetch the birds. All day-long, the dog ran on water and kept fetching the birds. The owner was expecting a comment or a compliment about his amazing dog, but never got one. As they were returning home, he asked his friend if he had noticed anything unusual about his dog. The friend replied, 'Yes, in fact, I did notice something unusual. Your dog can’t swim!' " - Unknown
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[Quote No.51563] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message: gentle persuasion is better than than violent force] 'The North Wind and the Sun' - The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shined out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak. And so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two." - Aesop
'The North Wind and the Sun' is one of Aesop's Fables.
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[Quote No.51583] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world." - Thomas Carlyle
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[Quote No.51589] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message about honesty, trust and credibility:] The Boy who Cried 'Wolf!' -
There was a boy who was a shepherd. One day he decided to have some fun at the expense of the villagers. He shouted, 'Help, help, the wolf is here.' The villagers heard him and came to his rescue. But when they got there, they saw no wolf and the boy laughed at them. They went away. The next day, the boy played the same trick and the same thing happened. Then one day, while the boy was taking care of his sheep he actually saw a wolf and shouted for help. The people in the village heard him but this time nobody came to his rescue. They thought it was another trick and didn't trust him anymore. He lost his sheep to the wolf.
The moral of the story is - when people tell lies, they lose credibility. Once they have lost credibility, even when they tell the truth, no one believes them!
" - Aesop
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[Quote No.51591] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message about honesty and the dangers of half-truths:]
There was a sailor who worked on the same boat for three years. One night he got drunk. This was the first time it ever happened. The captain recorded it in the log, 'The sailor was drunk tonight.' The sailor read it, and he knew this comment would affect his career, so he went to the captain, apologized and asked the captain to add that it only happened once in three years which was the complete truth. The captain refused and said, 'What I have written in the log is the truth.' The next day it was the sailor's turn to fill in the log. He wrote, 'The captain was sober tonight.' The captain read the comment and asked the sailor to change or add to it explaining the complete truth because this implied that the captain was drunk every other night. The sailor told the captain that what he had written in the log was the truth.
Both statements were true but they conveyed misleading messages. True honesty requires 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth' so the communication is clear and easily understood by all!" - Unknown
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[Quote No.51594] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A true story - with a message about humility, teamwork and true leadership:]
Many years ago, a rider came across some soldiers who were trying to move a heavy log without success. The corporal was standing by as the men struggled. The rider asked the corporal why he wasn’t helping. The corporal replied, 'I am the corporal. I give the orders.' The rider dismounted, went up and stood by the soldiers and as they were lifting the log, he helped them. With his help, the log got moved. The rider quietly mounted his horse and went to the corporal and said, 'The next time your men need help, send for the Commander-in-Chief.' After he left, the corporal and his men found out that the rider was General George Washington.
The message is pretty clear. Success and humility go hand in hand!" - Unknown
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[Quote No.51600] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message about the power of words to encourage or destroy:] Two Frogs -
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, ‘Did you not hear us?’ The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
This story teaches two lessons:
1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them.
Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another!" - Unknown
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[Quote No.51607] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message about coping with adversity and using your challenges, especially criticism, to make you stronger and better:] The Mule -
Once upon a time, a farmer owned an old mule who tripped and fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule braying and was unable to figure out how to bring up the old animal. It grieved him that he could not pull the animal out. He'd been a good worker around the farm. Although the farmer sympathized with the mule, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened. He
had them help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and quietly put him out of his misery.
At first, the old mule was puzzled, but as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back, he had a thought: he ought to shake off the dirt and step up. And he did just that.
‘Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up.’ Even though he took painful blows of dirt and fought panic, he just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up! It wasn't long before the old mule stepped up and over the lip of that
well. What could have buried him actually blessed him...all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity!" - Unknown
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[Quote No.51625] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't:] There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!" - Jim Ferree
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[Quote No.51631] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Ethics, morality, empathy and reciprocity:] Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." - Ernest Holmes
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[Quote No.51642] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Humor:] Jokes, which carry injury with them, are never agreeable." - Latin Proverb
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[Quote No.51644] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Poem: 'Optimism']
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough,
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
Look for the places that are smooth and clear,
And speak of those, to rest the weary ear,
Of Earth, so hurt by one continuous strain,
Of human discontent and grief and pain.
Talk faith. The world is better off without,
Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
If you have faith in God, or man, or self,
Say so. If not, push back upon the shelf,
Of silence all your thoughts, till faith shall come;
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale,
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please,
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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