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• Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Keys, One Day, Ease

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

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• An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Fear, Heart, Appeals

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• If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Brian Eno

  Nature, Tree, Quality

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• It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

  Helen Garner

  Age, Looks, Behaviour

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Witty, Love Is

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.203, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

  Gene Wolfe

  Change, Tanks, Half

  Gene Wolfe (1986). “Soldier of the Mist”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Nymphs, Unseen, Shells

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• It seems that laughter needs an echo.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

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• To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

  Bobby Vinton

  Mean, Sound, Band

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• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  William Hazlitt

  Voice, Firsts, Sound

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Men

  Elie Wiesel (1961). “Dawn”

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• Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Faults, Triumph, Journalism

  "WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity" by James Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2010.

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• You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

  Yannick Noah

  Village, Calm, Quiet

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• What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Forever, Answers, Stones

  Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.

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• I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?

  Samuel Rogers

  Youth, Birth, Arabian

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.93

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• Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

  Norman Douglas

  Education, School, States

  1929 How About Europe?

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• People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

  Jill Clayburgh

  People, Film, Seems

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• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Heart, Happy Day

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Ennui, Tearing Apart

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fake People, Coquette, Littles

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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Travel, Rome, Cities

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• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

  Ron Fournier

  President, Reelection, Bills

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