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• When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

  Burton Cummings

  Car, Singing, Trying

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Silence Is

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Echoes

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• What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Doe, Body

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• I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Forget Everything, Pieces, Paper

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• My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony

  Writing, Boss, Best Experiences

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• If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Heart, Moments

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• A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

  Jay Leno

  Reading, Men, Florida

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

  John Dryden

  Dying, Complaining, Woe

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

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• Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

  John Carmack

  Self, Mojave, Desert

  John Carmack's plan of Quake 3 Arena Project, www.bluesnews.com. May 15, 2000.

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• Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.

  Trevor Hall

  Mother, Song, Brother

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, America, Borders

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dating, Etiquette, Thank You Note

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.

  Judd Apatow

  Emotional, Careers, Issues

  The ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Compass, Harmony

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• It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

  Doris Lessing

  Years, Mind, Events

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

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• Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Winter, Dumb

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

  Abraham Cowley

  Humble, Inspire, May

  Abraham Cowley, “A Supplication”

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• When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

  Jonathan Raban

  Notebook, Memories, Home

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• Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.

  William Wegman

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.

  David Bentley

  Looks, Answers, Kind

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