"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing whatâ€™s going on, our ears donâ€™t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they canâ€™t hide from what they sense theyâ€™re about to hear, itâ€™s always too late."

-- Javier MarÃas

#Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.”
“If you take racism away from certain people - I mean vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible - misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.”
“Reality is always extraordinary.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”
“Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.”
“Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.”
“We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.”

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