"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
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"If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us."
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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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"I always get very calm with baseball."
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"Silence is safer than speech."
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"I find it easier to work when it's quiet."
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"Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim."
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"There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment."
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"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that."
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"My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them."
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"'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
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"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
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"When you become quiet, it just dawns on you"
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"There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light."
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"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
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"For after the Battle comes quiet."
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"Peace and quiet govern the world."
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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
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"The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation."
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"If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once."
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