"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."

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Source : "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Stone and a Word," Chapter: "Stories," p. 60), 1999.

Dejan Stojanovic

#Conversation Quotes

“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”
“Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.”

Source : Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.2
“Thereâ€™s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.”
“It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.”

Source : "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.
“President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.”
“At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.”
“But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

Source : Mankind Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2 (p. 231), Winter 1998.
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”

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