"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say."

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Source : Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Khalil Gibran

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“Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.”
“Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.”
“I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.”
“Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.”

Source : "'I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed'". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
“I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.”
“The scars of others should teach us caution.”
“I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.”
“Everyone had so much to say.”

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