Sylvia Browne (1936–2013) American author
May 16, 2003 Larry King Live, CNN interview http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/lkl.00.html
“Every man who observes, must have seen what bad listeners most people are.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Every man who observes, must have seen what bad listeners most people are. Inability to attend carefully to what is spoken is a great defect, which leads to blunders, misrepresentation, and sometimes to quarrels.
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