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"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons."

Jared Diamond on Communication

More quotes about Communication

  • "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

    Mark Twain on Communication

  • "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

    Lao Tzu on Communication

  • "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

    George Bernard Shaw on Communication

  • "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

    Charles Dickens on Communication

  • "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."

    Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Jared Diamond

  • "I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history."

  • "Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country."

  • "Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history."

  • "The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan."

  • "Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique."

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