Noise

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

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I was watching television and actually eating fish and chips for dinner when there was a noise up the chimney. Suddenly this thing appeared out of nowhere and bounced off some potato peelings I'd thrown on to the fire, out of the flames and on to the hearth.

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The expected drop in aircraft orders is strictly month-to- month noise and does not have any impact on the outlook for growth.

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You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.

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Sam grew from there and has morphed into something as prodigious as Mo Vaughn 's gut in his Met years It has 150,000 visitors each day, according to Christensen, and there are more than 10,000 people on the SOSH waiting list for membership. Uh, waiting list In order to maintain the quality standards, we've had to close membership, ... I don't want people to think we are kicking them to the curb because we think we are better than they are. That's definitely not the case. ButI think it the small group of members could be part of the draw of the site. It's the only way I know of maintaining a quality signal to noise ratio.

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Idiot Selfish There's nothing there worth a response. ... It's childish. It's time to move on. It's all a bunch of noise to me. ... As far as love lost, there was not much love there, anyway.

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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt

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It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

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The reason we own Microsoft is because once the economy improves we expect an upgrade in the PC cycle. All this other stuff is noise.

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A six-week regime of sleep deprivation, forced exercises, stress positions, white noise, and sexual humiliation amounts to acts that were specifically intended to cause severe physical pain and suffering and severe mental pain and suffering. That's the legal definition of torture.

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In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

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When dispatchers received the call, it was basically an open line... making enough noise that the dispatcher could tell that there was a child on the other end.

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The technology Siemens and Nortel developed couldn't deal with the level of noise on power lines. The technical challenge is to deal with the line noise while staying under the regulatory emission level.

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All I heard was a crackling noise and then I saw the scaffolding fall off the building.

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Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

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What I remember is standing on the sideline, thinking, 'Hey, that's a pretty good trick. I remember the noise was unbelievable. You could feel it on your face.

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And if they do, the board should also stay above the noise.

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I think there is a lot of noise currently, but we optimistically believe that he (Button) will be fine, ... When he is in the car, he will have too much to do.

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I've never heard 43,000 people just shut up like that. The noise just ... wasn't there.

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It's a little more serious this time around than just pre-negotiating posturing. It's not just noise. The steamship companies haven't made money for several years. They want more efficiency.

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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

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At the Congressional hearings next week, there will be a lot of noise about the Bush administration's budget, the budget deficits and Social Security, as well as talk of interest rates.

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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

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Burglars and bad guys don't like noise. Silence is their friend. They don't want to see lights. They don't want to see noise.

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If you get really worn out that's frequently a good way to get an idea because your usual noise isn't happening and they can come through easier.

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