"You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."

-- John Green

#People Quotes #Listening Quotes #Trying Quotes

“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”

Source : "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.
“No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.”
“After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.”
“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.”
“The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.”
“Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?”
“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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