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• It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

  Aesop

  Life, Prayer, Fables

  Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.

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• Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

  Omar Khayyam

  Doctors, Doors, Saint

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.19, Booklassic

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Spiritual, Europe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Believe, Understood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Communication, Learning, Voice

  Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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• I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

  Og Mandino

  Action, Resolution, Deals

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.136, Jaico Publishing House

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• When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

  Marco Rubio

  Country, News, Lasts

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• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Writing, Belief, Should

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Couple, Political, Baptism

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  John Keats

  Music, Spiritual, Sweet

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

  Amber Heard

  Feel Better, Amber, Eating

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• I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Swear To God, People, Hot

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  Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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• I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

  James Lovelock

  Nuclear, Campaigns, Surprise

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• And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

  Alexander Pope

  Gossip, Rumor, Enlargement

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.130

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• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

  John McCrae

  Blow, Gun, Sky

  Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields"

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• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Motivational, Life And Love, Freedom

  Speech to National Student Association at Madison, 23 Aug. 1965, in New York Times 24 Aug. 1965, p. 12

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• Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

  Ann Rule

  Book, Writing, Expression

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• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Vaccines, Literature, World

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• I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

  Julie Walters

  Funny, Men, Magazines

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

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• Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  Talib Kweli

  Radio, Way, Moral

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