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"He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him."
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"The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well."
"Mostly, people are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the 'apostolate of the ear, and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them."
"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"
"All of my style came from listening to records."
"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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