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Quote by Henning Mankell
What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other peoples dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats – and they in turn can listen to ours. – Henning Mankell

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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Society
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I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. – Henning Mankell

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Hope
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Men dont come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. Were looking across the room at you, and we dont care about your hopes and dreams. We dont care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted. – Steve Harvey

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To see your friends dreams come true, theres really nothing that can make you happier. – Josh Hopkins

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I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I cant tell you specifically what theyve been in the recent months. In the past theyve been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now theyre more dreams of his presence. – Judy Collins

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Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. – Armstrong Williams

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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level. – Vicente Fox

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I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? – Jean Claude Duvalier

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. – Alan Rickman

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