"I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!"
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"In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable."
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"This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't."
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"The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void."
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"I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within."
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"There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing."
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"Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything."
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"Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!"
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"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."
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"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."
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"But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words."
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"The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning."
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"I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise."
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"Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
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"I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy."
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"Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language."
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"This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it."
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"I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane."
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"Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper."
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"A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated."
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