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Jeremiah Wright Pastor, Author
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"Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change."

People Heaven Sound
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"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."

Sound Stones Ponds
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Ted Williams Baseball Player
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"The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!"

Fun Sound Baseball
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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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"The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change."

Sound Education Achievement
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky."

Night Sound Sky
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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure."

World Happiness Sound
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Brian Andreas Artist
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"If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that."

Sound Secret This Life
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Angus Young Musician
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"Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same."

People Sound Albums
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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live."

Sound Our Words Octopus
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