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Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it… — Jonah Goldberg
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush. — Andrew Sullivan
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the… — David Brooks
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I… — Flavia Weedn
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as… — Michael Kenna
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal… — Walt Mossberg
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they… — J. Courtney Sullivan
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring… — Cameron Sinclair
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
... you simply can't imagine what men will say! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. — Henry David Thoreau
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness. — Michel de Montaigne
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something… — Eric Hoffer

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