"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes #Talking Quotes

“"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.”
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
“Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.”
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2007). “The Whistling Season”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
“Mother Mary and the Christ energy hold a new profile on the Earth plane right now, and they will be there in the seminar in their new profile for this new phase we're entering into. They will walk among us and be much more available to individuals at this time on the Earth plane. They will be accessible in a very different way to support us in this transition on a very intimate and individual basis.”
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
“She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off”

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