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It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

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As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sea Quotes , Voice Quotes

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , War Quotes , Voice Quotes

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Law Quotes , Voice Quotes

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Anger Quotes , Voice Quotes

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Hate Quotes , Voice Quotes

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

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The one who sings, prays twice.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Voice Quotes , Singing Quotes

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Voice Quotes , Space Quotes

I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

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I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Voice Quotes , People Quotes

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Air Quotes , Voice Quotes

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , War Quotes , Voice Quotes

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Heart Quotes , Voice Quotes

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Heart Quotes , Voice Quotes

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Voice Quotes

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Voice Quotes , Wonderland Quotes

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Voice Quotes

Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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