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• Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

  Elihu Burritt

  Breathing, Peace And Love, Gentle

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• Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Design, Identity, Digital

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• You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Heart, Self

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• In visiting teaching we reach out to each other. Hands often speak as voices can’t. A warm embrace conveys volumes. A laugh together unites us. A moment of sharing refreshes our souls. We cannot always lift the burden of one who is troubled, but we can lift her so she can bear it well.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Teaching, Hands, Laughing

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• I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Athlete, Play, Giving

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• I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  Marguerite Young

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  Kate Smith

  War, Ties, Purpose

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• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  Kate Smith

  Perfect, Lucky, Birth

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• That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

  Robyn Davidson

  Home, Ideas, That One Person

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• I suppose my forcefulness will improve once my voice changes. Sopranos get no respect.

  Patricia Grasso

  Sopranos, No Respect

  Patricia Grasso (2006). “Seducing the prince”

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• If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Air, Motor Vehicles

  "Solar-powered plane reaches new heights". CNN interview, edition.cnn.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither?

  William Mountford

  Departed, Come Up, Gentle

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.305

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• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  Victoria Abril

  Morning, Character, Giving

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• Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

  Blythe Danner

  Littles, Matter, Sometimes

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• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  K. D. Lang

  Buddhist, Believe, Thinking

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Speak Your Mind, People, Safety

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

  Charles Kennedy

  Country, Fire, Giving

  "Wrong war, wrong time, wrong enemy, warns Labour rebel" by Nicholas Watt, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2003.

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• The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

  Jesse Ball

  Past, Men, Lovely

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• And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

  Thomas Traherne

  Song, Stars, Wind

  Thomas Traherne, “Dumbness”

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• When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Fighting, Done

  "Interview: Melissa Rosenberg On New Moon, Eclipse, And Breaking Dawn's Potential Mpaa Rating". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2010.

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• It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

  Susan L. Taylor

  Soul, Energy, Dull

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• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Theodore White

  Break Up, Time, Men

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

  Carter Burwell

  Unique, Musical, Sound

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• The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It's really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.

  Radhanath Swami

  Dirty, Heart, Ugly

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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