"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on."
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"Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light."
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"Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding."
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"...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order."
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"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
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"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
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"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
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"Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre."
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"Only through communication can human life hold meaning."
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"If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!"
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"It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer."
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"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."
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"The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties."
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"Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean."
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"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
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"A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him."
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"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"
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"If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk awhile, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apologize, That's a reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's cooperation. And all these ations added up Make civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?)"
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"Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication."
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