He is a good listener, reproducing debates between teachers and students about the questions that concern them most.

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He is also a good listener, people who have stood up to him say.

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Many, though by no means all, of his current advisers are indeed sound, and the evidence from his time governing California and from what the more impressive of them say is that his greatest quality is to be a good listener though not to the legislature, which he treated with disdain.

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The first bloke is a good listener, we also learnt, which the prime minister attributed to the years he devoted to shampoo and set duties.

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