"It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie."
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"Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss"
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"There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes."
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"When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence."
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"God is silent. Everything comes out of silence."
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"Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless."
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"The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid."
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"The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
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"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you."
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"No one dare disturb the sound of silence..."
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"When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence."
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"The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith."
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"Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence."
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"Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization."
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"If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease."
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"I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night."
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"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."
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"Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence."
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