"Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Communication Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.”
“If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.”
“The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.”
“Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.”
“I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.”
“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2005). “The hungry tide”
“I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.”

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