B. Priestley
B. Priestley
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The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
celebrity
... especially if you're a celebrity in this town.
begun elaborate less means whisper
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
society
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
blessing joy count-your-blessings
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.