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• We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

  Lauren Child

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

  Maria Callas

  Music, Wisdom, Failure

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• We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

  Edward Carpenter

  Night, Sea, Two

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

  Margaret Cho

  Funny, Heart, Order

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

  Che Guevara

  Hands, Umpires, Political

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• Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

  Seamus Heaney

  Hands, Years, Listening

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.416, Macmillan

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• I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

  Levon Helm

  Horny, Sound, Band

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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, California

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, People, May

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Cat, Dark

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.29, e-artnow

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• The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Home, Parenting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Jobs, Apples, World

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

  Wilson Mizner

  Life, Death, Atheism

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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  Edmond Rostand

  Funny, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Edmond Rostand (2013). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Faces

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

  Britney Spears

  Hair, Feet, Wish

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• I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

  David Ogden Stiers

  People, Might, Concerts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Body

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Broken

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• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Inspiring, Food, Loss

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

  Diane Cilento

  Language, Picks

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• I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

  Christine McVie

  Dog, Animal, Pet

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