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• Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Mom, Mother, Stories

  "Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy".

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• Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Numbers, Soul

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• There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Technology, Media, Voice

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• I move out here, and next thing I know I'm 25, and the only thing I've heard is, 'Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.' It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, 'Hey, you're good at this.'

  Bill Hader

  Nice, Moving, Coffee

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• Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.

  Billy Gardell

  Couple, Congratulations, Party

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Yield

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

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• My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Educational, Night

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• If I heard a girl crying help
  I would go to save her;
  But you hardly ever hear those words.
  Dear children, you must try to say
  Something when you are in need.
  Don't confuse hunger with greed;
  And don't wait until you are dead.

  Ruth Stone

  Girl, Children, Suicidal

  Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”

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• I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Golf

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• Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

  Anna Sewell

  Sports, Hurt, Horse

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

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• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Hater, Thinking, Want

  "Katie Couric Interviews Tavi Gevinson, The Style Rookie". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 6, 2011.

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• I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Garden, Thinking, Voice

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• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

  Simone Weil

  Moving, Cutting, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Life, Air, Wings

  George Parsons Lathrop (1875). “Rose and Roof-tree: Poems”, p.16

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

  Joseph Hagerty

  Inspirational, Sports, Giving Up

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• Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.

  James Green

  Friday, Stars, Block

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• We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

  Drake

  Jealousy, Hater, Live Life

  Song: Good Ones Go, 2011

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• I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

  Drake

  Sexy, Humble, Kissing

  "Song: "What's My Name?" ("Loud")". October 26, 2010.

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• Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
  You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.
  Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
  The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"

  Ken Green

  Golf, Practice, Two

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• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

  John Updike

  Divorce, Golf, Aunt

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• I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.

  William Mapother

  Independent, Numbers, People

  "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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• There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

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