what does " communicate their virtue or vice only by overt" actions mean?
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overt actions means simply to openly do something...as to the virtue or vice part...its just a personal thing...Are they good or bad people..Virtuous people do good things..people of vice do the opposite....so to "communicate their virtue or vice by overt actions" is stating that people will display openly whether they are good or bad.
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You mean adulation. It means flattery.\n\nAnd from the American Heritage dictionary: excessive flattery or admiration.
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Politely it means "It is none of your business"\n\nDirectly translated\n- It concernes you wet dirt (shit) - \n\nI think whoever it is is trying to tell you to mind your own business. lol
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It means nothing, people have all all kinds of things they do when communicating face to face. I have a friend who likes to rub his ear lobe when talking to people in close proximity.  Just remember it has nothing to do with you.
763012
It means to say exactly what you mean without adding to it or trying to be tactful. Often said when someone is being blunt or rude.  But basically it means to get directly to the point instead of being polite about it.
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V\n\n"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.\n\nThe only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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haha, i actually said this today. \n\nit just means that you may be wanting to do good, but your actions are evil. \nfor example, we went into iraq to supposedly bring them democracy, which is good right? but we killed tons of iraquis in the process, not so good. it just means that those actions ARE taken into consideration even if your intentions are good. the means do NOT justify the aims.
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the phrase "actions speak louder than words" comes to mind, I was once told that sometimes your own family can be your worst enemy, their are some mistakes that you will make in life that will be so bad that you can't fix them, all you can do is make amends, set things right as best you can and muddle your way on through, and that's life!!
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"having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people"\n\nIt means avoid and exclude people who aren't morally superior like you.\n\nKind of inflates ones head, huh?
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A good tact would be to talk about sacrifices you or others make to help others.  Also, think of things people don't necessarily want to do, but do anyway because they know it's the right thing.
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actions speak lauder than words.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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T.S. Eliot said mankind cannot bear very much reality.  Faith is a psychological crutch, the thing that keeps you from going mad every time you remember that you, too, are going to die and there's nothing to be done about it and it's just so massively unfair.  Naturally nobody would ever admit this.  When getting an education and applying logic and reason are so very difficult and frightening, it's "only human" to take the easy way out.\n\nWhich means, come to think of it, that faith isn't really a virtue! Virtue is supposed to be a matter of making hard choices -- otherwise it's valueless.\n\nI suppose the reason why people value faith (despite all of this) is that they have nothing better to put in its place -- after all, they've already given up on reality.  When you've chosen to discard the very best thing going, what the hell else is there except a fantasy.
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There are times when our ethics and morals require us to speak out.
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the best of intentions do not always mask the worst of acts.  even if no hurt was intended, folks say the first thing that occurs to them.  if more thought was put into what we say and if we took into account the emotional effects our words have on others, this wouldn't be the problem it is.  \n\nwe should all choose our words carefully, because (hopefully) someone might be listening.
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Its short for don't mention what your saying in context with .that's OK. its not necessary to thank me, or say anything, its Short for what they mean in there manner of expression of what there saying.you have to understand what there saying it in in context.in other words, they wont to have control of the conversation.
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There's also non-verbal communication to concider; body language, eye contact, tone emphasis, gestures.\n\nCommunication is basically the act of conveying meaning to another concious being who can recieve that meaning.