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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins
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Robert M. Hutchins
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Robert M. Hutchins
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I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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I have a very open line of communication with both my children.
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
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The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
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But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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Communication works for those who work at it.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
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The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
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