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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but th

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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James Baldwin
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Change
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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Innocence
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Your ability to move others into appropriate, timely, and effective action is largely determined by the consequences of your speaking and listening. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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Listening

Listen. Dont explain or justify. – William G. Dyer

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Listening

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus

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Listening

Never tell your story to a deaf man. – Proverb

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Listening

Random Quotes

Where is the good in goodbye? – Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)

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Goodbye

But beauty seen is never lost,
God – John Greenleaf Whittier

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Sunset

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. – Billy Graham

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Forgiveness

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Adversity