"Observation - activity of both eyes and ears."
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"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."
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"It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear."
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"Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking."
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"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."
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"Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground."
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"You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back."
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"Gorillas would be less scary with bunny ears. Actually, what isn't less scary with bunny ears? Osama Bin Laden with bunny ears. Ha! So cute."
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"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
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"It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear"
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"The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody."
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"What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears."
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"I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely."
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"There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears."
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"Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear."
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"To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears."
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"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
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"To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too."
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"Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind."
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"I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world"
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