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In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#conversation #friendship #communication

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow. But if they were spoken without regret they give you peace. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#openness #peace #communication

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#connection #love #understanding #communication

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#communication

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36) ↗

— Jon Stewart

#humor #italian #jon-stewart #language #communication

الصديق المرهق كَثير المعاتبة ، كثير اللوم ، يريد تفسيراً لما لا يفسّر .. يريد أن يفهم كل شيء . إذا سامحك على خطأ فهو يُشعرك أنه سامحك على خطأ .. ↗

— مريد البرغوثي

#communication

The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience "When’s the last time you had a Manic Episode Doctor"? ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#communication

It’s my birthday, who could be calling me? Probably my clone, wondering why he hasn’t been born yet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #born #clone #communicate #communication

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #communication #controversy #disapproval #emotions

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct. ↗

— Donald E. Knuth

#programming #communication