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"It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips."
"All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh."
"You can't find the sound if you just love sleep."
"only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being."
"I'll know when I find the ultimate sound."
"Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music."
"You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike"
"Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
"Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
"A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected."
"A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far."
"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers"
"It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors."
"Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence."
"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology."
"Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth."
"It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
"Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?"
"The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die."
"Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute."
