Quote by Isaiah Berlin
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. - Is

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

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Isaiah Berlin

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being said. – Peter Drucker

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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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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. – Johann von Goethe

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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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