"Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song."
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"The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole."
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"To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street."
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"The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average."
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"I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like."
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"Relationships, easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Because it’s hard to keep up the lie! ‘Cause you can’t get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can’t get nobody looking like you look, acting like you act, sounding like you sound. When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative!"
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"I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works."
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"Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets."
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"The way we look at it, everything is a sound."
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"My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American."
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"On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound."
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"You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound."
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"What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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"The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."
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"Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?"
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"Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all."
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"Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to."
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"I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me."
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"When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault."
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"The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics."
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