"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."

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Source : William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

William Hazlitt

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“It turns out that human beings are hard-wired to have conversations impact them in such profound and significant ways that it can actually turn genes on and off. That's a core, fascinating challenge for all of us and insight.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.”

Source : John Moody (2013). “The Railroad Builders (Volume 38 Chronicles of America)”, CreateSpace
“Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!”
“The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.”
“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.”
“I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.”

Source : "Still Skinny in Milan" by Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. February 27, 2007.
“I think growing up, we always try to make sense of who we are, what we go through, and I grew up in a very religious household. I interpreted what was wrong with me through religious language and I concluded, probably because of a combination of forces around me, that there was something in me that God didn't like or was unhappy with. Since these problems were in large part congenital, that meant that I was doomed from the beginning. I didn't have a chance.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.”

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