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“When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.”

Film Turns Conversation Weakness

Book:The Dinner

Source: The Dinner

“Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.”

Knows Way Turns Community Situation Conversation Speech Various Appropriate Speakers Grammar

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.”

People Turns Groups Conversation Equal Intelligent Factors Distribution Predicting

Author:Alex Pentland

“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.”

“If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.”

Ifs Book Helping Light Turns Sex Dark Expression Healthy Conversation Everyday Magazines Turn-on Unhealthy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.”

Should Two Turns Emotion Blood Subjects Conversation Combination Discussion Shed Polite Adages Shouting Polite Conversation

Author:John C. Danforth

“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.”

Ifs Giving Persons Turns Results Conversation Argument Arguing Bows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.”

Mind Book Ideas Seems Turns Wonderful Subjects Conversation Extraordinary Newspapers Pursue Coincidence Frequency

Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825