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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Ogden Nash

Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

Ben Harper

Morning, Believe, Fall

Song: The Woman In You, 2001

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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

Reverend Malcolm Boyd

Theatre, Example, Lines

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I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Conan O'Brien

Father, Great Love, Bed

"He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

Sela Ward

Sister, Scripts, Reunion

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When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Neil Young

Hate, People, Thank You God

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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

Bill Dixon

New York, Painting, Middle

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But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Jerry Lawler

Everything Happens For A Reason, Doe, Found

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If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Thomas Cech

Want, Strange, Study

"Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

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Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Believe, Japan, Stories

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I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Saint Basil

Teacher, Soul, Cases

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They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.

Natan Sharansky

Men, Voice, Soul

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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Art, Distance, Loss

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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Philip Massinger

Loss, Voice, Good Woman

Philip Massinger, John Ferriar (1813). “The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The bashful lover. The old law”, p.541

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One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Gertrude Stein

Loss, Said, Audience

Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Rick Larsen

Children, Sleep, Leaving

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Khalil Gibran

Writing, Learning, Men

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In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

James L. Buckley

Decision, Speech, Firsts

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If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

Peter Medawar

Real, Science, Giving

Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."

Rabia Basri

Wisdom, Fall, Islamic

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Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

Glenn Tipton

Song, Night, Yeah

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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

J. D. Hayworth

Doe, Rhyming, Citing

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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

Henry David Thoreau

Sky, Feet, Lakes

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The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Children, Government, Abuse

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I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

Emory Upton

War, Lying, Battle

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