"The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
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"The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear."
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"The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away."
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"The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music."
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"Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?"
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"The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin."
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"May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?"
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"I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news."
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"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."
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"I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?"
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"You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife."
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"The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!"
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"I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others."
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"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."
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"No matter what you do, you're always hearing something."
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"Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter."
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"Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?"
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"Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]"
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"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."
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