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• The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.

  Edward Kennedy

  Iraq, America, Abuse

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• Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you were a chamber music pianist.

  David Finckel

  Would Be, Chamber Music, Pianist

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

  David Finckel

  Thinking, Today, Chamber Music

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• The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
  psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Antiques

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Drug, Treasure

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  God, Christian, Prayer

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, Men

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

  Bernard Baruch

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vanity, Glasses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

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• I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Bullets, Shots

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• Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

  Walter Savage Landor

  God, Wise, Wisdom

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

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• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

  John Milton

  Air, Silence, Softness

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 16

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• Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Moving, Spirit

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• The heart is a hollow muscle, and it will beat billions of times during our lives. About the size of a fist, it has four chambers: two Atria and two ventricles. How this muscle can house something as encompassing as love is beyond me. Is this heart the one that loves? or do you love with your soul, which is infinite?I don't know. All I know is that I feel this love in every molecule in my body, every breath I take, all the infinity in my soul.

  Katy Evans

  Heart, Love Is, Two

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Hard Times, Soul

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
  Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
  Love given willingly, full and free,
  Love for love's sake - as mine to thee.
  Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
  But Love, the master, goes in and out
  Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
  Just as he please - just as he please.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life, Song, Heart

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Plighted”

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• In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;
  And thoughts of you, I do remember,
  Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
  Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Dark, Night

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Single, Christian, Mother

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• Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

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• Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Men, Doors

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.25, Discovery House

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• The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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• Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Law, Political

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