"When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way."
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"Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop."
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"The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious"
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"What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!"
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"I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off."
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"I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?"
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"If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
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"I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood."
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"I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment."
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"I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything."
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"We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
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"When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears."
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"Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
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"When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear"
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"No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access."
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"There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres."
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