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  1. One who listens; a harkener. Not to die a listener, I arose, And with me Philip, talking still. Tennyson, The Brook.

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  • Let us say, then, that my listeners are a most uncommon herd. —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
  • It is only by a rare combination of gifts that one who speaks with so much readiness, force, and brilliance as to charm his listeners is also able to deliver such valuable thoughts in such choice words that posterity will read them as literature. —  William Ewart Gladstone
  • Constitution on your program, you and your listeners will be able to put the two allegiances in better order ... for the sake of all of us. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • By hearing about God's love as a story, the listeners are allowed to draw their own conclusions and people will trust their own conclusions more than others (Simmons). —  open source theology - Comments
  • "We're not as corporate as some of the other markets, and I think our listeners will be the first to tell you that they enjoy the variety of our playlist vs. the same ten or fifteen songs over and over." —  The 9513
 

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