"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.“
-Michel de Montaigne
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
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"In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people."
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"Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
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"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
-Oliver Evans
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"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
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"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
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