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• Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Character, Hands

  Alexander Francis Chamberlain, Archer Butler Hulbert, James Ford Rhodes, Noah Jones, John Quincy Adams (1913). “The Most Successful American Privateer: An Episode of the War of 1812”

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• I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person.
  So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows?

  Carl Rogers

  Lying, Feelings, Important

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• Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Children, Light, Events

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• A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Yellow, Giving

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• There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

  Isidore of Seville

  Music, Heaven, Sound

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• I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Paper, Architecture

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.356, Ravenio Books

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• Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

  George Eliot

  Self Confidence, People, Addresses

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Clever, People, Culture

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

  Joseph Priestley

  Communication, Squash, Use

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• Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Sorry, Team

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• Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, Wings, Bravery

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the tone for the rest of the holiday shopping season.

  Richard Hastings

  Strong, Halloween, School

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• On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

  Chuck Noll

  Leadership, Team, Battle

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• I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.502, Classic Books Company

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Men, Sea

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

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• Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Real, Sarcasm, Space

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• Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Exercise

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• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

  Robert Creeley

  Reality, Matter, Secure

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• Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Voice, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.306

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• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

  Franz Liszt

  Song, Inspiration, Expression

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• As great Pythagoras of yore,
  Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
  And hearing the hammers, as they smote
  The anvils with a different note,
  Stole from the varying tones, that hung
  Vibrant on every iron tongue,
  The secret of the sounding wire.
  And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Iron, Doors, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.105

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• You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

  David R. Ellis

  Funny, Home, Character

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

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• I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Baby, Diversity, Leader

  "Top 5 Girl Power Role Models of 2015" By Lauren Galley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2015.

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