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It's funny how we feel so much but we don't say a word, we're screaming inside but we can't be heard. — Wiz Khalifa
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. — Gene Wolfe
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in… — Erma Bombeck
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. — Jane Austen
I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. — George W. Bush
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. — Lord Chesterfield
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual… — Noam Chomsky
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. — Evelyn Waugh
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,… — Henry David Thoreau
A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first." — Robert Breault
My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?"… — Joan Rivers
As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it -… — Jay Leno
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the… — Mairead Corrigan
People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance.… — Carly Fiorina
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who… — Solomon Northup
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it. — John C. Maxwell
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears… — Khalil Gibran
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes… — Deborah Tannen

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