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• When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change

  John Lewis

  Kings, Mean, College

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• The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Names, Catholic

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• I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

  Luis Bunuel

  Work, Pigs, Honor

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• "(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Believe, Names

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• Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Healing, Voice

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].”, p.33

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• For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Years, Direct Action

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.90, Beacon Press

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• Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
  I could see the city light
  Wind was blowing, time stood still
  Eagle flew out of the night
  He was something to observe
  Came in close, I heard a voice
  Standing stretching every nerve
  I had to listen, had no choice

  Peter Gabriel

  Time, Night, Light

  Song: Solsbury Hill

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• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Moving, Scene

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.197

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• Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

  James Keller

  Time, Moving, Roaring

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• We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

  James Keller

  Mom, Time, Prayer

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• Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Night, Years

  "Professor checks out new landscape 'after King'". Interview with Arienne Thompson, www.usatoday.com. April 3, 2009.

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• EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the peak of Mount Fuji, but the goal is the same. There are many methods of reaching the top, and they all bring us to new heights. There is no need to battle with each other-we are all brothers and sisters who should walk the Path together, hand in hand. Keep to your Path, and nothing else will matter. When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Brother, Hands, Goal

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Soul, Doe

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Blown away by the album, I called Nathan Hubbard, the drummer and composer for the group, and with whom I've played on a couple of Trummerflora-related occasions, and asked him to round up several of his Return To One cohorts for tonight's show. I can't recommend their album highly enough; please pick up a copy.

  Mike Keneally

  Dream, Couple, Albums

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• I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, People, Use

  "Sepp Blatter urges Brazil protesters not to link grievances to football" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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• On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

  Laurens van der Post

  Summer, War, Moon

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• You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

  Wanda Jackson

  Oklahoma, California

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• Aussie sledging? I'm just glad they've heard of me!

  Monty Panesar

  Glad, Aussies

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• I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

  Steven Moffat

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Reducing

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Silence, Mind

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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• Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

  Janet Maslin

  Phrases, Midlife, Crisis

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• Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

  Billy Eckstine

  Soul, Chicago, Bud

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• My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my grandfather told me to stand still outside and hold her leash tight. Then he shot a gun off by our feet, several times. "This is how girls learn to obey," he said, "how to be seen and not heard."

  Mira Bartok

  Girl, Dog, Bullying

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