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• Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

  Jan Marsh

  Voice, Oil, Drawing

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• Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Believe, Sage

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Intelligent

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Home, Garden

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could fit into our "buddy system." The way we talk about Him, the way we pray, and, more strikingly, the way we live shows that we have somehow lost our sense of being appropriately awestruck in the presence of a holy and all-powerful God. It's been a long time since we've heard a good sermon on the "fear of God." If God were to show up visibly, many of us think we'd run up to Him and high-five Him for the good things He has done.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Powerful

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• They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
  But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
  Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July...
  And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.

  Flavor Flav

  Lying, Rap, July

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• The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard the beating of wings and saw a hawk circling above the trees, its harsh cry drifting on the air. At the same time he realized that one cat had not taken shelter; Snowkit was tumbling and playing in the middle of the open space. "Snowkit!" Speckletail yowled desperately.

  Erin Hunter

  Taken, Cat, Eye

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• All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Lakes, Khufu

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• We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

  Jamie Foxx

  Reality, People, Magic

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• You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
  But that's a lie because I heard your moms breathing on the phone.
  And if you really like me, let your moms know
  She should mind her business...before I let go.

  K-Solo

  Mom, Letting Go, Lying

  Song: Your Mom's In My Business, Album: Tell the World My Name

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• You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

  Pharrell Williams

  Hip Hop, Guy

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

  Sam Donaldson

  Mistake, Years, President

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• I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

  Anton Seidl

  Artist, Feelings, Singing

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.105, Parrot Press

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• I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

  William Blake

  Angel, Singing, World

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

  George Harrison

  Song, Singing, Titles

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• I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

  Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1972). “Acts and monuments”

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• When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

  David Coverdale

  Romantic, Teacher, Art

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• ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

  Plato

  Jobs, Men, People

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• I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doctors, Virginia, Speak

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• Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Moon, Hands

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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