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Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity cannot be cured but it can be muffled with duct-tape. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 4 years ago
At some point I heard a muffled sound... I saw the cars in front of me going [ down ]. I felt the asphalt was gone and I found Davide Capello going down in my car... I thought that it would be the end, that I was going to die, then my car stopped, there wasn't a head-on crash, so it got embedded somewhere. – Davide Capello	Found on CNN 5 years ago
That's a pretty big stimulus to those oil consumers, but we haven't really seen it yet, that's a theme that perhaps is not being played out in the market. Part of the reason the fuel price benefit is more muffled than in previous cycles, analysts say, is because consumers are paying down their own debt, uncertain about their future wage growth. Another reason is that there are more things to spend money on that are not tracked by traditional measures, such as online home-sharing service Airbnb or car ride service Uber. – Laith Khalef	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I started yelling and Michelle yelled back, very faintly, and it was muffled -- 'Help me! Help me!'. – Billy Sawyer	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again. – Alan Moore	added by anonymous 9 years ago
we heard a muffled boom – Ed Walton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. – Leo C. Rosten	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity cannot be cured but it can be muffled with duct-tape.

– Charles De Gaulle

added by anonymous
4 years ago

At some point I heard a muffled sound... I saw the cars in front of me going [ down ]. I felt the asphalt was gone and I found Davide Capello going down in my car... I thought that it would be the end, that I was going to die, then my car stopped, there wasn't a head-on crash, so it got embedded somewhere.

– Davide Capello

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That's a pretty big stimulus to those oil consumers, but we haven't really seen it yet, that's a theme that perhaps is not being played out in the market. Part of the reason the fuel price benefit is more muffled than in previous cycles, analysts say, is because consumers are paying down their own debt, uncertain about their future wage growth. Another reason is that there are more things to spend money on that are not tracked by traditional measures, such as online home-sharing service Airbnb or car ride service Uber.

– Laith Khalef

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I started yelling and Michelle yelled back, very faintly, and it was muffled -- 'Help me! Help me!'.

– Billy Sawyer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

– Alan Moore

added by anonymous
9 years ago

we heard a muffled boom

– Ed Walton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

– Denis Diderot

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

– Leo C. Rosten

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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