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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation." »James Thurber
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"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind." »Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
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"Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation." »Peter S. Prescott
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"The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit." »Cornelius Stam
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"They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one." »Barbara Hall
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"[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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"Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz
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"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties." »Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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