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Your Quotes for 29 December 2005 - Hearing

The Maico Transist-ear hearing aid was first offered for sale on this day in 1952, the first fully transistorized hearing aid. (Sonotone had introduced a model with one transistor and two tubes the week before.) It was a breakthrough in comfort and weight, reducing the size of the belt-mounted battery pack dramatically and cutting the cost for a set of replacement batteries from $100 to $10. I hope to not need one soon, although my Hearing is not what it once was.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
     - Angela Mončt

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
     - Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
     - George Dana Boardman, 1801 - 1831

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
     - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1819 - 1880

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
     - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

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