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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
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Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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