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«Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.»
«A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.»
«Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.»
«Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good»
«Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.»
«Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.»
«Best is the Tongue that feels the rein; He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly: Who listens to the chattering Pye?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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«A story from 'Last Barrier' aptly illustrates it. The Turkish Sufi Master tells his Christians devotee that every morning he sends a message of love to no one particular; whoever is ready, listens to it, responds.»
«Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.»
«A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers»