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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.

  Allison Joseph

  Writing, Profound, Treasure

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!

  David Berg

  Joy, Forever, Heaven

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• Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!

  David Berg

  Children, Blessed, Opposites

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• The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

  Manly Hall

  Religious, Simple, Expression

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Judgement, Youth, Glory

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• The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Taste, Firsts

  "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, p. 30, 1904.

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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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• 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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• The introduction of optical fiber systemswill revolutionize the communications network. The lowtransmission loss and the large bandwidth capability of the fibersystems allow signals to be transmitted for establishingcommunications contacts over large distances with few or noprovisions of intermediate amplification.

  Charles K. Kao

  Distance, Communication, Loss

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