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Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison.
Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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