“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362
“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830
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