Amplification Quotes

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Lying, War

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• I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

  Francois Hollande

  Effort, Middle East, Importance

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• Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

  Mike DeWine

  Thinking, Media, Looks

  "CNN Newsroom". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Physicians, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Vices, Oratory, Modern

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.347

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• Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

  John Frusciante

  Rocks, Rock Music, Music Is

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• The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Needs, Half

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

  Brownie McGhee

  Guitar, Steel, Needed

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• Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

  David Tudor

  Mixing, Sound, Principles

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• When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

  Renee Fleming

  Sound, Loud, Humans

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• Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

  Margaret Atwood

  Madness

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Vices, Oratory

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.56, Modern Library

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• Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument.

  Tim Hughes

  Profound, Musical, Church

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• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Numbers, Expression

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• What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.

  John Gimlette

  Finding Yourself, Cuba, Bars

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

  Christopher Bollen

  Light, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

  Archibald Geikie

  Men, May, Biographies

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1905). “The Founders of Geology”

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• There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

  Philip Schultz

  Revenge, Real, Two

  Source: poems.com

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• If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

  William Shockley

  Ties, Fire, Energy

  "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.

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• If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

  Annie Lennox

  Bridges, Giving, People

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, States, Planets

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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