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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Communication,

Author:

George Bernard Shaw
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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. I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
  • 2. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
  • 3. At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although of course I adore them too.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different and I loved it.
  • 2. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 3. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
  • 2. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.
  • 3. Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I went to school for engineering I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them so I went to architecture school in New York.
  • 2. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 3. Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it's really difficult.
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