"I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right."

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Source : "CLICK Blog" by Tim Man, www.politico.com. July 19, 2012.

#Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.”
“Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.”
“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

Source : Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.13, North Atlantic Books
“Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.”
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
“Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.”
“Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.”
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.”

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