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"I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it."
"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought."
"A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think."
"A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away."
"Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them."
"A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations."
"My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise."
"Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise"
"Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!"
"I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement."
"Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise."
"Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words."
"Calumny is only the noise of madmen."
"A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field."
"To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise."
"A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within."
"It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it."
"Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."
"You cannot hear music and noise at the same time."
"People who make no noise are dangerous."
