Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well."
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Haile Selassie
Emperor
"The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news."
John Brown
Abolitionist, Military Leader
"Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!"
Aristotle
Philosopher
"A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission."
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"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"
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"I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it ."
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"There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive."
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"To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
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"When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people."
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"Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley."
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"On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling."
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"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story."
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"All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing."
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"You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time."
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"[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?"
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"I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones."
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"He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless."
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"The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight."
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"Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said."
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"He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just."
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"Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer."
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"I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
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"A fearful man is always hearing things."
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