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A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Left
Mines
Choir
Makes
Silent
Diminish
Nature
Including
Cooperation
Many
Mine
Voices
Made
Poor
Loud
Sound
Unity
Voice
Determine
Soloists
Song
Harmony
Diminishes

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