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"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them."
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"Listening is more important than solutioning."
"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"
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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."
"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"
"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."
"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
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"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war."
"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
"At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves."
"As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity."
"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
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