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"Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience." »John Cage
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"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities." »John A. Rassias
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"All the sounds of the earth are like music." »Oscar Hammerstein II
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"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." »Mark Twain
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"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." »Xenophon
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"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime." »Paul Williams, Das Energi
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""There are two reasons why a person does something, one that sounds good and the real one."" »Tom Zegan
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them." »Anatole France
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"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper." »Tom Robbins
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"I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one." »David A. Cronin
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"When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds." »Chinese
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"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer." »Donna Summer
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"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs." »Tori Amos
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"How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds, And drives away his fears." »John Newton
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"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll." »George Whelton
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"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh
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"I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." »Ellen Glasgow
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"If it sounds good, you'll hear it If it looks good, you'll see it If it's marketed right, you'll buy it but if it's real, you'll feel it." »Kid Rock
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted." »William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like." »Dave Navarro
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"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves." »Lewis Carroll
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"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation." »Anne Rice
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"Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated by the whole creation." »Nakhshabi
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"Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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