Amplification Quotes

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Lying, War

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• I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

  Francois Hollande

  Effort, Middle East, Importance

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• Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

  Mike DeWine

  Thinking, Media, Looks

  "CNN Newsroom". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Physicians, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Vices, Oratory, Modern

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.347

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• Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

  John Frusciante

  Rocks, Rock Music, Music Is

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• The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Needs, Half

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

  Brownie McGhee

  Guitar, Steel, Needed

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• When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

  Renee Fleming

  Sound, Loud, Humans

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• Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

  David Tudor

  Mixing, Sound, Principles

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• Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

  Margaret Atwood

  Madness

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Vices, Oratory

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.56, Modern Library

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, States, Planets

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

  Christopher Bollen

  Light, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

  Archibald Geikie

  Men, May, Biographies

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1905). “The Founders of Geology”

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• There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

  Philip Schultz

  Revenge, Real, Two

  Source: poems.com

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• What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.

  John Gimlette

  Finding Yourself, Cuba, Bars

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

  Annie Lennox

  Bridges, Giving, People

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

  PZ Myers

  Law, Special, Important

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• There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wealth, Rhetorical, Simplest

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Taste, Firsts

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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