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To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating,
approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.


Abraham H. Maslow

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible wort...
ABRAHAM CAHAN Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of men...
KARL ABRAHAM Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inh...
KARL ABRAHAM Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the d...
KARL ABRAHAM A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neur...
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