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  2. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, David A. Ross identified "The Second Coming" as "one of the most famous poems in the English language," [7] echoing Harold Bloom who, in 1986, cited the piece as "one of the most universally admired poems of our century." [8] Critics agree that the poetry of Percy Shelley had a strong influence on the drafting of "The Second Coming."

  3. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    And gave a more technical answer, "Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound." [6]

  4. Sound - Wikipedia

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    (b) Auditory sensation evoked by the oscillation described in (a)." [2] Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can also be viewed as an excitation of the hearing mechanism that results in the perception of sound. In this case, sound is a sensation.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    There is more than one way to skin a cat; There is no accounting for tastes; There is no fool like an old fool; There is no I in team; There's no need to wear a hair shirt; There is no place like home; There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. There is no smoke without fire/Where there is smoke, there is fire

  6. Diane Warren Responds to Cher Saying She's 'Cheap' in New Doc ...

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    "Nuts, cheap, unrelenting, optimistic, sweet. She’s just crazy, Oh my God. But she writes great songs," the pop legend says about Warren in 'Diane Warren: Relentless'

  7. 'Wake up the echoes:' Why Notre Dame slogan has become ... - AOL

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    The National Anthem is No. 1, although nobody knows the words to the second verse. Then there’s ‘God Bless America,’ ‘White Christmas,’ and the ‘Victory March.’

  8. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    This phrase is sometimes mistakenly rendered as "to the manor born", and used to mean 'of the privileged class”; see references for more on this one. In recent years this misconception has spread through the popularity of the British sitcom To the Manor Born , the title of which was a deliberate pun on Shakespeare's phrase.)

  9. Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New ...

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    We need to remember Daniel Enriquez who, as his sister said, “did die in vain” when a deranged gunman shot and killed the 48-year-old Goldman Sachs employee on the Q train as he was headed to ...