"Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment."

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Source : Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.52, Indiana University Press

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.”
“The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)”
“We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.”

Source : Jessica Shirvington (2015). “The Violet Eden Chapters”, p.412, Hachette UK
“Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.”
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
“History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.”

Source : "The wishing tree". Book by Subhash Kak, 2015.
“Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.”
“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.”

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