"To listen well is as powerful a means……" — John Marshall
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well"
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43 Quotes by John Marshall
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The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to…
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
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Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
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To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either…
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
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A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
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The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and…
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
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The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to…
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The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and…
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict…
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More Communication Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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