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• At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

  Henry Miller

  Giving Up, Heart, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Physical love must end up as a creative love. And creative love must end up as a divine love. And divine love must end up as a unison love. And unison love must become God Itself. These are the known stages of love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Creative

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• A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Moving, Men, World

  Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Body, Instinct

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.

  Chris Rock

  People, Laughing, Miracle

  "Ready to Rock" by David Bennun, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 1999.

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• Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.

  Gina Barreca

  Pain, Anger, Voice

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• If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

  Ralph Ellison

  Song, Voice, Long

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.270, Vintage

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• An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

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• If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Names, Two

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.

  Wesley Eisold

  Listening, World, Steps

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When panting sighs the bosom fill,
  And hands by chance united thrill
  At once with one delicious pain
  The pulses and the nerves of twain;
  When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
  Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
  Ecstatic conscious unison, -
  The sure beginnings, say, be these
  Prelusive to the strain of love
  Which angels sing in heaven above?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Pain, Angel, Eye

  "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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• If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it in unison with people who are also are at risk and threatened by Islamic Radical terrorism, we'll be far more successful.

  Jeb Bush

  Islamic, Successful, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Ballet, Trying, Uniforms

  "Misty Copeland Seeks To Inspire Other African-American Dancers". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 1, 2015.

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• The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Two, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: "I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!"

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Numbers, Citizens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Europe, Middle East

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  Idries Shah

  People, Desire, Common

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• A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sweet, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.110, 谷月社

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• When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.

  Jason Mraz

  Eye, Naked, Levels

  "Modern Music Masters: Jason Mraz". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 5, 2010.

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• In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.' What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!' Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race.

  Ann Coulter

  Twilight, Mean, Sleep

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• A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Wedding, Real, Simple

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

  Guy Garvey

  Men, Singing, Arms

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

  George Eliot

  And Love, Enough, Select

  George Eliot (2006). “Adam Bede Volume Ii EasyRead Large Editi”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.

  Sark

  Powerful, Princess, Thinking

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.com

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• The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

  Aristotle

  Errors, Feet, Community

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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