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(verb) (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. Example: "I was deaf, and now I can hear."

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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain
"Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties."
— Oscar Wilde
"Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away."
— Benjamin Franklin
"All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it."
— James Baldwin
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
— Rumi
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
— Confucius
"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
— Abraham Lincoln
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear."
— Henry David Thoreau
"Be strong enough to forgive without hearing a sorry."
— Carla Stokes
"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again."
— Groucho Marx
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Paulo Coelho
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
— Marcus Aurelius
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