"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
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"He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear."
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"Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."
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"I'm not frightened of a bit of silence."
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"What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence."
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"If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive."
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"Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence."
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"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
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"Silence is the eternal duty of man."
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"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them."
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"Silence gives the proper grace to women"
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"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed."
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"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking."
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"To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets."
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"The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis."
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"Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence."
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"In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy."
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"Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."
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"Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought."
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"It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult."
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