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"You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."
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"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
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"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."
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"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"
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"Active listening is the ultimate "Golden Rule" for sensational customer service. Just as the important people in your life will feel more valued and appreciated when you actively listen, so will your customers."
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"I tend to avoid people who always have something to say - and those who expect me to always have something to say."
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"You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid."
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"A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!"
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
Curiosity
"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."
Trust
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
Inspirational
"I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"
Hope
"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."
Reality
"What a slut time is. She screws with everybody."
Time
"I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species."
Duty
"I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin."
Humor
"But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another."
Philosophy
"My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun."
Experience
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