It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  2. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me... - Emilie Autumn

  3. Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. - Toba Beta

  5. Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line. - Anthony T.Hincks

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  1. A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

  2. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  3. You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...

  4. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  5. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....

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