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"The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace."
"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
"Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me"
"My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice."
"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
"The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead."
"When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger."
"How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice."
"The voice of nature is always encouraging."
"Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet."
"I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot."
"All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings."
"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
"Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal."
"The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind."
"I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press."
"Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?"
"Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority."
