"The single biggest problem in communication is..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”
“Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.”
“No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.”
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“My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.”
“Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.”