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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous." »Simone Weil
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"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." »Peter Minard
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"It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right." »Unknown
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"Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure." »Lou Vickery
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"Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." »Edmund Burke
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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal." »Peter Ustinov
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"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth." »Quincy Jones
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"That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it." »Jerry Coleman
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"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate." »Margaret Cho
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"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." »Napoleon
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." »Michel de Montaigne
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak." »Michel de Montaigne
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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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"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?" »Mahabharata
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"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances." »William Powell
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone." »Hodding Carter
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"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence." »John Lahr
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"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence." »Visions of Gregorian Chants
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"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." »Quentin Crisp
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"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter
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"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." »Joseph Addison
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"You have to reach a level of comfort with that risk." »Sally Ride, President, Space.com
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"I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires." »William Shakespeare
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"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter
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"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out." »Alexander Pope
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"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings." »Mary Wortley Montagu
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