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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice."

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Henry George Economist, Journalist
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"one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women ."

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."

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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers."

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Adam Young Musician
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"When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any."

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration."

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Sam Smith Singer
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"One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean."

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"Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'"

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