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• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Funny, Truth, Tired

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• I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Gun, Missing

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• Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, May, Causes

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.597, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

  Pat Tillman

  Military, Voice, Wish

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Practice, People, What If

  "Interview with Leslie Nielsen Actor and Comedian". AudiologyOnline Interview, www.audiologyonline.com. December 9, 2002.

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• The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

  Zitkala-Sa

  God, Sweet, Nature

  Zitkala-Sa (2014). “American Indian Stories”, p.109, Diderot Publishing

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• It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Car, Radio, Coming Out

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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Time, Judging, Opera

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• Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Perspective, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Eras

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

  Pete Townshend

  Trouble, Deaf, Type

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• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  Elia Kazan

  Voice, Secret, Admiring

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.278, Knopf

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• I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

  Jack Irons

  Rumor, Fans, Young

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• I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

  Calamity Jane

  Shooting, Way, Killing

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Reading, People

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• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  Lane Kirkland

  Lips, Harlots, Trade

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• So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

  Harry Reid

  Change, House, Want

  "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

  Bill Bruford

  Figures, Ifs

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