"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
-Simone Weil
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"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.“
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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
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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."
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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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