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Communication
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Connect. Understand. Thrive.

Communication is the dynamic process of conveying information, ideas, and feelings between individuals or groups, creating shared understanding and meaning. It's fundamental to human life because it fosters connection, builds relationships, enables collaboration, and allows us to transmit knowledge and culture across generations, shaping our societies and individual identities.

Communication

# Communication & Occupations

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Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

— Unknown

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Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Sociology

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Context: • Marshall McLuhan (2011) The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan. p. 362.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 41.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“The general notion in communication theory is that of information. In many cases, the flow of information corresponds to a flow of energy, e.g. if light waves emitted by some objects reach the eye or a photoelectric cell, elicit some reaction of the organism or some machinery, and thus convey information.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Robert T. Craig (1999) "Communication Theory as a Field".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication has recently been flourishing. Nevertheless, despite the ancient roots and growing profusion of theories about communication, I argue that communication theory as an identifiable field of study does not yet exist.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Daniel Chandler (1994). The Transmission Model of Communication. University of Western Australia.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“They developed a model of communication which was intended to assist in developing a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon and Weaver's work proved valuable for communication engineers in dealing with such issues as the capacity of various communication channels in 'bits per second'. It contributed to computer science. It led to very useful work on redundancy in language. And in making 'information' 'measurable' it gave birth to the mathematical study of 'information theory'”

— Unknown

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Context: • Walter F. Buckley (1968) "Society as a complex adaptive system" in: Modern systems research for the behavioral scientist. Walter Buckley ed. p. 490.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“A more viable model, one much more faithful to the kind of system that society is more and more recognized to be, is in process of developing out of, or is in keeping with, the modern systems perspective (which we use loosely here to refer to general systems research, cybernetics, information and communication theory, and related fields). Society, or the sociocultural system, is not, then, principally an equilibrium system or a homeostatic system, but what we shall simply refer to as a complex adaptive system.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Cats

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Context: • Sarah Brown, (2023), The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow, page: 72, publisher: Penguin Random House, Dutton, ISBN: 0593186419
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Once cats have used the meow to gain a person's attention, they generally use additional visual or tactile techniques for explaining what is so urgently needed, such as rubbing their head and flanks around our legs and then against the food cupboard, or sitting looking pointedly at the back door.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Mark Twain, (1920), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page: 59, publisher: Harper & Brothers (1st edition 1876; dialogue between Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, who admits to breaking a window)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“" ... Will you meow?'
"Yes—and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you keep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat!' and so I hove a brick through his window—but don't you tell."
"I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. ..."”

— Unknown

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Context: • Jonathan B. Losos, (2023), The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, page: 23, publisher: Penguin Random House, Viking Press, ISBN: 1984878700
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Why can't people figure out what a cat's trying to say?
The answer was revealed in a study conducted in England in 2015. Using an approach similar to Nicastro's, the researchers went to people's homes and recorded cats meowing in four different contexts.* Then they played the calls back to listeners to see if they could correctly identify the context of each call. An important difference from Nicastro's study, however, was that people who lived with each cat were included among the listeners.
Participants were reasonably proficient when listening to the cat with whom they shared a home, correctly identifying the context sixty percent of the time. By contrast, when hearing an unfamiliar cat, they picked the correct context a paltry twenty-five percent of the time, no better than guessing randomly.
These results suggest that each cat has her own specific meows that she uses in different situations, and that people who live with these cats learn to recognize what each meow means. However, these call are cat-specific; there is no universal cat language, with one type of meow proclaiming "I'm hungry" and another indicating "I'm scared." ...
”

— Unknown

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Context: • Jennifer Ball, (2019), "“Meow” Is Just Another Name for “Cat”", Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 09 no: 05, DOI: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“Meow. We know this is the sound a cat makes. Five thousand years ago, so did the Ancient Egyptians. They just pronounced it “miw,” according to Sir Alan Gardiner, the deceased expert on Egyptian grammar. This is very close to how Mandarin Chinese speakers currently pronounce the word for “cat:” māo …
… The consonant-vowel pattern meow may not seem important in our language—it’s just the sound a cat makes—but in Chinese, this sound pattern—spelled “miao”—occurs 16 times by itself, and at least 78 times in conjunction with other characters, according to http://www.mandarintools.com/. The Miao of China—one of the meanings of “miao”—is an ancient people known for their farming and embroidery; the word also means “family, progeny, sprout.”
The Oxford English Dictionary does not include a listing for “miao” or “meow.” The closest word is “miaow,” and it means, “Imitative. Similar representations of the cry of a cat (and corresponding nouns and verbs) are very widespread in numerous languages: compare, e.g., German miau, Spanish miau, Russian mjau, Turkish miyav, Finnish miau, Chinese miāo, etc.” Even though OED claims the word is widespread, the earliest date given is 1288. Ancient Egyptian isn’t mentioned. Under “cat” however, OED offers, “History points to Egypt as the earliest home of the domestic cat, and the name is generally sought in the same quarter.” Not discussed is the fact that the Egyptians used the word “miw,” even though Gardiner’s book was published in 1927.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Culture

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is a living body. It is in continuous flux, which enables it to accommodate itself to the real circumstances of a people’s lives.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter One
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is vital; it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never relinquishing its connection to the past. Its adaptability has always been required, as many generations have experienced.”

— Unknown

More Quotes

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Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Hanni Abbas Interview (2013)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (A)

“When you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically”

— Unknown

U

Context: • J. B. Priestley, Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957), p. 201
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

— Unknown

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Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. VI "Argonauta"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (L)

“Good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Ella Wheeler Wilcox, New Thought Pastels (1913), Affirm.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Mary Oliver, Winter Hours (1999), "Sand Dabs, Six"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Gregory Bateson (1955) "A theory of play and fantasy". in: Psychiatric research reports, 1955. pp. 177-178
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction.”

— Unknown

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Context: • John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Publishing Company, 1903, p. 412. Full text online.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring classes.
• Bertolt Brecht, A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Die Gesellschaft hat kein gemeinsames Sprachrohr, solange sie in kämpfende Klassen gespalten ist.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Benjamin Banneker As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Emily Dickinson, "Speech Is One Symptom of Affection". Poems, ed. T. H. Franklin (1955), no. 1694; Poems, ed. R. W. Johnson (1998), no. 1681
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (D)

“Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—”

— Unknown

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Context: • Mario Perniola, Contro la comunicazione
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“There is a secret in communication: it consists in making oneself invisible through excessive exposure. (p. 13)”

— Unknown

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Context: • Karl Jaspers (1933) Man in the Modern Age, p. 128
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (J)

“When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.4#
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, like small birds at dawn.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Manuel Castells (2001) The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (C)

“The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.”

— Unknown

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Topic

Communication
Quotes

Connect. Understand. Thrive.

Communication is the dynamic process of conveying information, ideas, and feelings between individuals or groups, creating shared understanding and meaning. It's fundamental to human life because it fosters connection, builds relationships, enables collaboration, and allows us to transmit knowledge and culture across generations, shaping our societies and individual identities.

Communication

# Communication & Occupations

U

Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Sociology

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Context: • Marshall McLuhan (2011) The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan. p. 362.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 41.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“The general notion in communication theory is that of information. In many cases, the flow of information corresponds to a flow of energy, e.g. if light waves emitted by some objects reach the eye or a photoelectric cell, elicit some reaction of the organism or some machinery, and thus convey information.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Robert T. Craig (1999) "Communication Theory as a Field".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication has recently been flourishing. Nevertheless, despite the ancient roots and growing profusion of theories about communication, I argue that communication theory as an identifiable field of study does not yet exist.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Daniel Chandler (1994). The Transmission Model of Communication. University of Western Australia.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“They developed a model of communication which was intended to assist in developing a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon and Weaver's work proved valuable for communication engineers in dealing with such issues as the capacity of various communication channels in 'bits per second'. It contributed to computer science. It led to very useful work on redundancy in language. And in making 'information' 'measurable' it gave birth to the mathematical study of 'information theory'”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Walter F. Buckley (1968) "Society as a complex adaptive system" in: Modern systems research for the behavioral scientist. Walter Buckley ed. p. 490.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“A more viable model, one much more faithful to the kind of system that society is more and more recognized to be, is in process of developing out of, or is in keeping with, the modern systems perspective (which we use loosely here to refer to general systems research, cybernetics, information and communication theory, and related fields). Society, or the sociocultural system, is not, then, principally an equilibrium system or a homeostatic system, but what we shall simply refer to as a complex adaptive system.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Cats

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Context: • Sarah Brown, (2023), The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow, page: 72, publisher: Penguin Random House, Dutton, ISBN: 0593186419
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Once cats have used the meow to gain a person's attention, they generally use additional visual or tactile techniques for explaining what is so urgently needed, such as rubbing their head and flanks around our legs and then against the food cupboard, or sitting looking pointedly at the back door.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Mark Twain, (1920), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page: 59, publisher: Harper & Brothers (1st edition 1876; dialogue between Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, who admits to breaking a window)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“" ... Will you meow?'
"Yes—and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you keep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat!' and so I hove a brick through his window—but don't you tell."
"I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. ..."”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Jonathan B. Losos, (2023), The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, page: 23, publisher: Penguin Random House, Viking Press, ISBN: 1984878700
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Why can't people figure out what a cat's trying to say?
The answer was revealed in a study conducted in England in 2015. Using an approach similar to Nicastro's, the researchers went to people's homes and recorded cats meowing in four different contexts.* Then they played the calls back to listeners to see if they could correctly identify the context of each call. An important difference from Nicastro's study, however, was that people who lived with each cat were included among the listeners.
Participants were reasonably proficient when listening to the cat with whom they shared a home, correctly identifying the context sixty percent of the time. By contrast, when hearing an unfamiliar cat, they picked the correct context a paltry twenty-five percent of the time, no better than guessing randomly.
These results suggest that each cat has her own specific meows that she uses in different situations, and that people who live with these cats learn to recognize what each meow means. However, these call are cat-specific; there is no universal cat language, with one type of meow proclaiming "I'm hungry" and another indicating "I'm scared." ...
”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Jennifer Ball, (2019), "“Meow” Is Just Another Name for “Cat”", Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 09 no: 05, DOI: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“Meow. We know this is the sound a cat makes. Five thousand years ago, so did the Ancient Egyptians. They just pronounced it “miw,” according to Sir Alan Gardiner, the deceased expert on Egyptian grammar. This is very close to how Mandarin Chinese speakers currently pronounce the word for “cat:” māo …
… The consonant-vowel pattern meow may not seem important in our language—it’s just the sound a cat makes—but in Chinese, this sound pattern—spelled “miao”—occurs 16 times by itself, and at least 78 times in conjunction with other characters, according to http://www.mandarintools.com/. The Miao of China—one of the meanings of “miao”—is an ancient people known for their farming and embroidery; the word also means “family, progeny, sprout.”
The Oxford English Dictionary does not include a listing for “miao” or “meow.” The closest word is “miaow,” and it means, “Imitative. Similar representations of the cry of a cat (and corresponding nouns and verbs) are very widespread in numerous languages: compare, e.g., German miau, Spanish miau, Russian mjau, Turkish miyav, Finnish miau, Chinese miāo, etc.” Even though OED claims the word is widespread, the earliest date given is 1288. Ancient Egyptian isn’t mentioned. Under “cat” however, OED offers, “History points to Egypt as the earliest home of the domestic cat, and the name is generally sought in the same quarter.” Not discussed is the fact that the Egyptians used the word “miw,” even though Gardiner’s book was published in 1927.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Culture

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is a living body. It is in continuous flux, which enables it to accommodate itself to the real circumstances of a people’s lives.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter One
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is vital; it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never relinquishing its connection to the past. Its adaptability has always been required, as many generations have experienced.”

— Unknown

More Quotes

U

Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Hanni Abbas Interview (2013)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (A)

“When you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically”

— Unknown

U

Context: • J. B. Priestley, Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957), p. 201
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. VI "Argonauta"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (L)

“Good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Ella Wheeler Wilcox, New Thought Pastels (1913), Affirm.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Mary Oliver, Winter Hours (1999), "Sand Dabs, Six"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Gregory Bateson (1955) "A theory of play and fantasy". in: Psychiatric research reports, 1955. pp. 177-178
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Publishing Company, 1903, p. 412. Full text online.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring classes.
• Bertolt Brecht, A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Die Gesellschaft hat kein gemeinsames Sprachrohr, solange sie in kämpfende Klassen gespalten ist.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Benjamin Banneker As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Emily Dickinson, "Speech Is One Symptom of Affection". Poems, ed. T. H. Franklin (1955), no. 1694; Poems, ed. R. W. Johnson (1998), no. 1681
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (D)

“Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Mario Perniola, Contro la comunicazione
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“There is a secret in communication: it consists in making oneself invisible through excessive exposure. (p. 13)”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Karl Jaspers (1933) Man in the Modern Age, p. 128
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (J)

“When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.”

— Unknown

U

Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

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Context: • Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.4#
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, like small birds at dawn.”

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Context: • Manuel Castells (2001) The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (C)

“The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.”

— Unknown

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# Communication & Occupations

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Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

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Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

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Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

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Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

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Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Sociology

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Context: • Marshall McLuhan (2011) The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan. p. 362.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.”

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Context: • Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 41.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“The general notion in communication theory is that of information. In many cases, the flow of information corresponds to a flow of energy, e.g. if light waves emitted by some objects reach the eye or a photoelectric cell, elicit some reaction of the organism or some machinery, and thus convey information.”

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Context: • Robert T. Craig (1999) "Communication Theory as a Field".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication has recently been flourishing. Nevertheless, despite the ancient roots and growing profusion of theories about communication, I argue that communication theory as an identifiable field of study does not yet exist.”

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Context: • Daniel Chandler (1994). The Transmission Model of Communication. University of Western Australia.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“They developed a model of communication which was intended to assist in developing a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon and Weaver's work proved valuable for communication engineers in dealing with such issues as the capacity of various communication channels in 'bits per second'. It contributed to computer science. It led to very useful work on redundancy in language. And in making 'information' 'measurable' it gave birth to the mathematical study of 'information theory'”

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Context: • Walter F. Buckley (1968) "Society as a complex adaptive system" in: Modern systems research for the behavioral scientist. Walter Buckley ed. p. 490.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication theory" (Quotes)

“A more viable model, one much more faithful to the kind of system that society is more and more recognized to be, is in process of developing out of, or is in keeping with, the modern systems perspective (which we use loosely here to refer to general systems research, cybernetics, information and communication theory, and related fields). Society, or the sociocultural system, is not, then, principally an equilibrium system or a homeostatic system, but what we shall simply refer to as a complex adaptive system.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Cats

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Context: • Sarah Brown, (2023), The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow, page: 72, publisher: Penguin Random House, Dutton, ISBN: 0593186419
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Once cats have used the meow to gain a person's attention, they generally use additional visual or tactile techniques for explaining what is so urgently needed, such as rubbing their head and flanks around our legs and then against the food cupboard, or sitting looking pointedly at the back door.”

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Context: • Mark Twain, (1920), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page: 59, publisher: Harper & Brothers (1st edition 1876; dialogue between Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, who admits to breaking a window)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“" ... Will you meow?'
"Yes—and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you keep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat!' and so I hove a brick through his window—but don't you tell."
"I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. ..."”

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Context: • Jonathan B. Losos, (2023), The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, page: 23, publisher: Penguin Random House, Viking Press, ISBN: 1984878700
• Source: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“... Why can't people figure out what a cat's trying to say?
The answer was revealed in a study conducted in England in 2015. Using an approach similar to Nicastro's, the researchers went to people's homes and recorded cats meowing in four different contexts.* Then they played the calls back to listeners to see if they could correctly identify the context of each call. An important difference from Nicastro's study, however, was that people who lived with each cat were included among the listeners.
Participants were reasonably proficient when listening to the cat with whom they shared a home, correctly identifying the context sixty percent of the time. By contrast, when hearing an unfamiliar cat, they picked the correct context a paltry twenty-five percent of the time, no better than guessing randomly.
These results suggest that each cat has her own specific meows that she uses in different situations, and that people who live with these cats learn to recognize what each meow means. However, these call are cat-specific; there is no universal cat language, with one type of meow proclaiming "I'm hungry" and another indicating "I'm scared." ...
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Context: • Jennifer Ball, (2019), "“Meow” Is Just Another Name for “Cat”", Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 09 no: 05, DOI: Wikiquote: "Meow" (Quotes)

“Meow. We know this is the sound a cat makes. Five thousand years ago, so did the Ancient Egyptians. They just pronounced it “miw,” according to Sir Alan Gardiner, the deceased expert on Egyptian grammar. This is very close to how Mandarin Chinese speakers currently pronounce the word for “cat:” māo …
… The consonant-vowel pattern meow may not seem important in our language—it’s just the sound a cat makes—but in Chinese, this sound pattern—spelled “miao”—occurs 16 times by itself, and at least 78 times in conjunction with other characters, according to http://www.mandarintools.com/. The Miao of China—one of the meanings of “miao”—is an ancient people known for their farming and embroidery; the word also means “family, progeny, sprout.”
The Oxford English Dictionary does not include a listing for “miao” or “meow.” The closest word is “miaow,” and it means, “Imitative. Similar representations of the cry of a cat (and corresponding nouns and verbs) are very widespread in numerous languages: compare, e.g., German miau, Spanish miau, Russian mjau, Turkish miyav, Finnish miau, Chinese miāo, etc.” Even though OED claims the word is widespread, the earliest date given is 1288. Ancient Egyptian isn’t mentioned. Under “cat” however, OED offers, “History points to Egypt as the earliest home of the domestic cat, and the name is generally sought in the same quarter.” Not discussed is the fact that the Egyptians used the word “miw,” even though Gardiner’s book was published in 1927.”

— Unknown

# Communication & Culture

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is a living body. It is in continuous flux, which enables it to accommodate itself to the real circumstances of a people’s lives.”

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter One
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is vital; it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never relinquishing its connection to the past. Its adaptability has always been required, as many generations have experienced.”

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Context: • Alexander the Great, as quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“A king does not kill messengers.”

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Context: • Abraham Joshua Heschel, as quoted in The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story (2008) by Diane Ackerman.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

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Context: • Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Hanni Abbas Interview (2013)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (A)

“When you have a cause, the best way to express yourself is artistically”

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Context: • J. B. Priestley, Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957), p. 201
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

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Context: • Enmerkar, in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr1823.htm
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Messenger, by night, drive on like the south wind! By day, be up like the dew!”

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Context: • Sophocles, Antigone, lines 276–77.—The Dramas of Sophocles, trans. Sir George Young, p. 16 (1888). A sentinel is speaking to Creon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“I well believe it, to unwilling ears; none love the messenger who brings bad news.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (1955), Ch. VI "Argonauta"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (L)

“Good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”

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Context: • Ella Wheeler Wilcox, New Thought Pastels (1913), Affirm.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
To speed between thee and the source of power.”

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Context: • Mary Oliver, Winter Hours (1999), "Sand Dabs, Six"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”

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Context: • Gregory Bateson (1955) "A theory of play and fantasy". in: Psychiatric research reports, 1955. pp. 177-178
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction.”

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Context: • John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI: Good Health Publishing Company, 1903, p. 412. Full text online.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.”

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Context: • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring classes.
• Bertolt Brecht, A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Die Gesellschaft hat kein gemeinsames Sprachrohr, solange sie in kämpfende Klassen gespalten ist.”

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Context: • Benjamin Banneker As quoted in Friends' Intelligencer Vol. XI (1854), p. 821
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (B)

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

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Context: • Emily Dickinson, "Speech Is One Symptom of Affection". Poems, ed. T. H. Franklin (1955), no. 1694; Poems, ed. R. W. Johnson (1998), no. 1681
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (D)

“Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence one—
The perfectest communication
Is heard of none—”

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Context: • Mario Perniola, Contro la comunicazione
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (P)

“There is a secret in communication: it consists in making oneself invisible through excessive exposure. (p. 13)”

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Context: • Karl Jaspers (1933) Man in the Modern Age, p. 128
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (J)

“When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.”

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Context: • Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Three
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oral tradition" (Quotes)

“The oral tradition is more than a record of a people’s culture. It is the creative source of their collective and individual selves.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.4#
• Source: Wikiquote: "Messenger" (Quotes)

“The messenger runs like a wild ram and flies like a falcon. He leaves in the morning and returns already at dusk, like small birds at dawn.”

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Context: • Manuel Castells (2001) The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Communication" (C)

“The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.”

— Unknown

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