"I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action."
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"Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne."
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"I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'"
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"Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so."
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"A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience."
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"The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me."
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
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"We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know."
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"It may sound trite, but young people really are the future."
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"I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies."
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"Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine."
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"Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere."
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"In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation."
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"Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky."
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"Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light."
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"The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal."
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"I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love."
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"I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended."
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"I don't need sound to talk to me."
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"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."
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