"Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols."
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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
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"When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet."
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"The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate."
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"Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences."
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"Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head."
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"But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?"
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"I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true."
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"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage."
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"We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
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"The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability"
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"But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music."
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"Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry"
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"It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'"
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"Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them."
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"If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas."
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"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."
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"It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me."
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"I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful."
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"Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this."
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