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Iain McGilchrist

“Non-verbal behaviour, language, facial expression, intonations and gestures are instrumental in establishing complex contradictory, predominantly emotional relations between people and between man and the world. How frequently a touch by the shoulder, a handshake or a look tell more than can be expressed in a long monologue. Not because our speech is not accurate enough. Just the contrary. It is precisely its accuracy and definiteness that make speech unsuited for expressing what is too complex, changeful and ambiguous.”

Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
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