"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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"I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier."
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"Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian."
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"Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear."
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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."
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"Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it."
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"I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work."
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"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it."
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"I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia."
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"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute."
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"I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you."
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"You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general."
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"[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?"
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"But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity."
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"Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent."
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"I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop."
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