Quote by James Baldwin
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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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. – John Erskine

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. – Wilson Mizner

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Listening

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. – Isaiah Berlin

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Listening

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. – Thich Nhat Hanh

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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. – Desmond Tutu

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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. – Emma Goldman

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About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. – Tom Wilson

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Self-Control

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You cant put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if youre doing it from a position of correction. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty