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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

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Sydney J. Harris
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Category: Communication

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless of course you happen to be a bottle of wine.
  • 2. I began to understand my sensations to know what I wanted at around the age of forty – but only vaguely.
  • 3. The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

2 Amazing

  • 1. They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted but it was good.
  • 2. What do I think of L.A.? It's boring with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great but by and large I think it's quite boring.
  • 3. It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

3 Anger

  • 1. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
  • 2. In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
  • 3. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
  • 2. Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
  • 3. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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