"The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter."

-- A. C. Benson

#Simple Quotes #Talking Quotes #Letters Quotes

“If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?”
“So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'”
“Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.”
“Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.”
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”

Source : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...”
“It helps me chill out and focus.”

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