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• I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

  Murray Walker

  Doubt, Pits, Hearing

  "Evening Standard: F1 Made Me Deaf, Says Walker". The Evening Standard, June 21, 2007.

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• Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Airplane, Self, Tunes

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• Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Vocabulary, Sound, World

  Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

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• Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

  Robert Lacey

  Modern, Pollution, Insidious

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• This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.

  J. Brent Bill

  Spring, Heart, People

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• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sweet, Inspiration, Practice

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

  Michio Kushi

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 4), December 1994.

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• Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Patience, Looks, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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• I would have loved to have had the start that Tom Brady did, won a couple of Super Bowls early, but I wasn't good enough at the time. I have to get better. You start to understand that all the talk and noise really don't matter. Every quarterback goes through the same thing. You have to keep getting better; your team will keep getting better—and you'll have a chance.

  Tony Romo

  Couple, Team, Get Better

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

  Muhammad al-Bukhari

  Writing, Unfortunate, Apostles

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• the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Falling In Love, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

  Marcus Garvey

  Mistake, Bravery, Lips

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.219, The Majority Press

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• One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Strong, Men, Evil

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• I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

  P. K. Subban

  Hockey, Nhl, Waiting

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• American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.

  Mel Brooks

  Morning, Sex, Kids

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Rocks, Careers

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Children, Hate

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke detector is meant to alert us to a serious matter that requires a response - and so is the cry of a baby.

  Jan Hunt

  Baby, Serious, Sound

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.34, New Society Publishers

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• Babies cry, make noise, go here and there. But it annoys me when a baby cries in church and there are those who say he needs to go out. The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church!

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Voice, Church

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• Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

  Barbara Hurd

  Heart, Animal, Silence

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• First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

  John Milton

  Kings, Sacrifice, Fire

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 01”

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• Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

  Horace

  Envy, Competition, Crow

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• Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Fame, He Man

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• Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Beautiful, Children, Virtue

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