"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

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Source : Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

Deborah Tannen

#Communication Quotes #Independence Quotes #Cogs Quotes

“'Are science and religion compatible?' It's like [asking]: 'Are science and plumbing compatible?' They're just two different things.”
“We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.”
“Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.”
“Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents”
“Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . . . Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet”
“Wait. Far be it for me to say this" â€” Hamish looked around the compartment â€” "and if anyone tells Uncle Eddie I suggested being an upstanding citizen I'll kill 'em, but aren't there...laws and stuff? I mean, can't you...you know...sue him or something?" asked the boy who had once stolen an entire circus, all three rings.”
“The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.
“Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.”

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