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• In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Voice, Unity, Secret

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.86, Penn State Press

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• Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

  Anais Nin

  Science, Poet, Scientist

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• Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Love Is

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• ''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  "Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

  Herbert Spencer

  Soldier, Policemen

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• I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Voice, Discipline, Sound

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• Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Heart, Two, Yesterday

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• The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?” (Luke) “Nothing,” chorused Clary, Simon, Alec, Magnus, and Jace in surprising and probably never-to-be-repeated unison. -pg.243-

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Listening, Next

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• Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

  Maureen Johnson

  Said, Impressive, Ready

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.138, Penguin

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• But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Coats, Examination, Saws

  "Cite libre" Journal, April 1963.

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• We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Design, Execution

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.

  Simon Jenkins

  Weekend, Essence, America

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• Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

  Maureen Johnson

  Want, What You Want, Said

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.138, Penguin

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• Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

  Yoko Ono

  Love, Heart, Fighting

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• By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero) We know. (They said in unison.) Yeah, well, what you don’t know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her…and she thinks we’re all idiots. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Grateful, Hero

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• Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.

  Nicky Ryan

  Writing, Voice, Interesting

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• What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

  Brandon Mull

  Two, Brain, Three

  Brandon Mull (2014). “The Candy Shop War”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

  Woody Allen

  Eye, Rays, Machines

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• They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.

  Anita Diament

  Color, Voice, Rainbow

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• To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

  Harry Markowitz

  Fall, Risk, Return

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• If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

  Ally Carter

  Europe, Doe, Prison

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.252, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.

  Edward Abbey

  Moving, Agreement, Voice

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of here," he told her. "Go downstairs. Go now." "No," she countered. "You go." "Why?" he asked. "You tell me first." But before they could say another word, the last elevator slid slowly open and two men in masks rushed out. From the opposite side of the of the ballroom, shots rang out, rapid fire, piercing the ceiling, plaster falling onto the dance floor like snow. And then Hale and Macey whispered in unison, "Because of that.

  Ally Carter

  Fall, Men, Fire

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• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.

  C.D. Wright

  Art, Moving, Practice

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