Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place."
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Echoes
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Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you."
Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
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"Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence."
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"(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation."
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"Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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"Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror."
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"No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound."
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"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."
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"The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes."
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more"
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"If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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"A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice."
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"What we do now echoes in eternity."
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"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."
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"Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE."
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"He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo."
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"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
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"We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror"
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"We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live."
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"Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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