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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." »John Locke
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"sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life,
Is worth an age without name." »Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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"You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body." »Juvenal
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"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer." »Leonard Bernstein
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"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." »Maxims of Ptahhotep
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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another." »Sophocles
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet
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"“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ….. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.” -Amit Ray,“Om Chanting and Meditation”" »Amit Ray
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"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone." »Henry Bromel
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"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things
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"Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles." »Brooks Hays
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"Knowledge produces mildness of speech; mildness of speech, a good character; a good character, wealth; wealth, if virtuous actions attend it, happiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson
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"What is the sound of one hand clapping" »Confucius
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"I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound." »Stephen Wolfram
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"Republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound." »Oscar Fischinger
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"The sound of life has divine silence." »Kedar Joshi
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"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." »Paul Valery
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"I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar." »Ronald Reagan
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." »Douglas Adams
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"A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." »Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
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"Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him." »Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964
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"Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence." »Margaret Halsey
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