"Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?"
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"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
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"Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome."
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"I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer."
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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"Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it."
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"You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being."
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"While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence."
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"I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!"
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"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."
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"I don't meditate. Silence is golden though."
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"You can't improve on saying nothing."
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"And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God."
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"I have an appetite for silence."
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"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."
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"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"
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"Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation."
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"Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence."
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."
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