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“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

Humans Moments Bigs Sound Cities Silence Strange Quiet Breaths Fellows Noise Instant Seconds Sunlight Traffic Miraculous Footsteps Big Cities

Author:Dorothy Day

“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

World Sound Common Four Wonderful Adventure Wall Research Fellows Wide Common Sense Realms Venture Respectable Homely Four Walls

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.”

Men Way Humans Kind Long Sound Practice Danger Fellows Blame Investing Appearance Human Life Orthodox Realistic Conventional Ruined Alas Long Life Bankers Respectability Most Romantic

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.”

Men Firsts Shows Sound Heard Couple Fellows Legs Comedian One Man Trousers Coma Edinburgh

Author:Paul Merton

“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.”

Men World Way Law Choices Evil Sound Common Secret Democracy Path Walking Ethics Fairs Fellows Good And Evil Fellow Man Common Law

Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

“Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.”

School Sound Teacher Childhood Fellows Conversion Sunday Assured Early Childhood Sunday School

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.”

Source: A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters