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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

Communication, Problem, Illusion, Place

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare

Love, Trust, Wrong, Few, None

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Man, Woman, Men, Always

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston

Learning, Curiosity, Research, Purpose

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov

Wisdom, Knowledge, Value, Practice, You

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! - Tennessee Williams

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! Tennessee Williams

Liar, Hypocrite, Only, Than, Worse, Also

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Tom Stoppard

Childhood, You, Never, Your, Become

What I value most in my friends is loyalty. - David Mamet

What I value most in my friends is loyalty. David Mamet

Loyalty, Value, Friends, Most

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. - John Heywood

A hard beginning maketh a good ending. John Heywood

Good, Beginning, Ending, Hard, Maketh

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Brendan Behan

Book, Speech, Hands, Authority, Like

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. - Wilson Mizner

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. Wilson Mizner

Research, You, Plagiarism, Steal, Many

The strong man is strongest when alone. - Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone. Friedrich Schiller

Alone, Man, Strong, Strong Man

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. - Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe

Beauty, Romantic, Stars, Art, Evening

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud

Life, People, Genius, Solution, Head

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Nature, Green, Color, World, Prime

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. - Wole Soyinka

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. Wole Soyinka

Tiger, Shout, Does, Acts

No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce

Good, Good Deed, Goes, Deed, Unpunished

People change and forget to tell each other. - Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman

Change, Relationship, People, Forget

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. - Pierre Corneille

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille

Sad, Sadness, Joy, Perfect, Never, Taste

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas

Love, Together, Door, Pure Love, Pure

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Thomas Dekker

Health, Together, Sleep, Golden, Our

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

Funny, Tired, You, Habit, Laziness, More

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco

Dreams, Together, Us, Bring, Separate

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Marsha Norman

Music, Bird, Lion, People, Song, Dancing

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. Marcel Pagnol

Look, End, Engineers, Atomic Bomb, Up

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. Alan Bennett

School, School Days, Theatre, Place

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