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“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“This world to me is like a lasting storm, whirring me from my friends.” William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
“The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“And I have one of these very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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