Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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- When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
- I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? – Benjamin Disraeli
- Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. – Benjamin Disraeli
- The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. – Germain G. Glien
- The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. – Alan Alda
- Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. – Oscar Wilde
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- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo
- There is no education like adversity. – Benjamin Disraeli