"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening."

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Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media

Marge Piercy

#Listening Quotes #Want Quotes #Should Quotes

“Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.”
“A lot of people are looking for their soul mates. Along the way, it's nice to bump into some genital pals.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 18, 2013
“I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”
“Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.”
“If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.”
“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”
“I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.”

Source : Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

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