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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
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Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.
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The people who matter will recognize who you are.
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Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
