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• 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

  Children, Fear, Hate

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

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• Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Thinking, Average, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Awards, Way

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• Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

  Thomas Beecham

  Movie, Musical, Painful

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• Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

  Perry Como

  Running, Kids, Glasses

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• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, House, Way

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  Doors, Whining, Contemplation

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Safety, Ignorant, Execution

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• What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Flower, Rose

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Heart, Unique, Brain

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• To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

  Jenson Button

  Rip, Car, Skins

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• After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

  Ethel Waters

  Cheer, Fear, Years

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• All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Mary McCarthy (2016). “The Stones of Florence”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Christmas, Christian

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Jobs, Data, News

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• Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Communication, Internet, Free Speech

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• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Comforting, Energy

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• If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, Silence, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.565, Penguin

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• The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

  Armin Wiebe

  Knowledge, Silence, Needs

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• Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Peace, War

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• Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

  Robert Anderson

  Men, Brain, Wilderness

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• If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Voice, Intuition, World

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

  Henry James

  Science, Biographies, Huxley

  Henry James, Jack Kerouac (1999). “Henry James: A Life in Letters”, Viking Press

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