"Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening."

-- Jean Vanier

#Listening Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
“If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.”

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“Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body”
“All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.”
“The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers”
“A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.”
“In the faces of men and women, I see God.”

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