"To listen acutely is to be powerless, even……" — Cynthia Ozick

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• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,… — A. C. Benson
• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still… — Agatha Christie
• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the… — Chris Christie
• Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? — P.J. O'Rourke
• must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. — Thomas Reid
• Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So… — Elie Wiesel
• Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is… — William E. Simon
• All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to… — Patrick Warburton
• We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those… — Walter Lippmann
• Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is… — Jean Toomer
• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five… — Yukio Mishima
• A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed… — James Payn

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