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“It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.”

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Author:R. L. Stine

“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”

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Author:J. C. Macaulay

“If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of life of those who utter them, they will not be heard. But if they are uttered through the practice of the commandments, their sound has such power that they dissolve the demons and dispose men eagerly to build their hearts into temples of God through making progress in works of righteousness.”

Ifs Men Way Heart Christian Sound Practice Progress Heard Expression Messages Demon Temples Orthodox Righteousness Word Of God Rooted Virtuous Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”

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Author:Sadegh Hedayat

“Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.”

Men World Inspiration Spiritual Sound Divine Harmony Contemplation Spheres Echoes

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”

Men Art Sound Talent Judgment Abuse Department Possessed Inferiors Splendid Neglected Admonition Sound Judgment

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.”

Ifs Men Able Action Sound Activity Satisfied Thee Heroic Expecting Live Happy

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.”

Men Firsts Sound Silence Down And Lays Spread Woods Thanks Temples Roof Solemn Lofty Framed Anthem Grove Vaults Supplication

Author:William C. Bryant

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”

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Book:The Tragedy of King Lear

Source: The Tragedy of King Lear

“man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.”

Men Found Sound Imagination Society Sight Senses Confusion Tendencies Irrepressible Sight And Sound

Author:Arthur Koestler