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• A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

  Anuj

  Men, Voice, Silence

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• Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
  until you arrive at the silence of yourself
  and listen to it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Emotional, Silence, Intellectual

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

  Sam Kutesa

  Country, Drinking, Uganda

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• Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Wish, Fabric, Made

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• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  Saint Augustine

  Reflection, Silence, Looks

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• Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Sheep, Media, People

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• I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

  Richard Griffiths

  Childhood, Parent, Dumb

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Wall

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• Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memories, Believe, Autumn

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• Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Size, Accepted

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• Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

  Russell Baker

  Background Noise, Journalism, Backgrounds

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• There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

  Jules Renard

  Justice, Littles, Sides

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.251, Tin House Books

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Issues, Silence, Life Is Like

  FaceBook post by Gabriel Cousens, MD from Oct 09, 2015

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• On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Boss, Delay, Lines

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• I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Stupid, Light

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Episode #9.31)". Talk-Show, February 14, 2001.

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• What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Beautiful, Humorous

  W.C. Fields (2016). “Fields for President”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Journey, Long Ago

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

  Shalom Harlow

  Feet, Dancing, Able

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• I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

  Bridget Moynahan

  New York, Cities, Missing

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

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• Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

  Steve Burns

  Crazy, Sound, Crowds

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• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  Vicente del Bosque

  World, Doe, Normality

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• People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Play, Rivers, People

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