People don't automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing. (Ivor Tiefenbrun)

People don't automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.

Ivor Tiefenbrun

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