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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
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"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
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"The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say."
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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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"Think and keep quiet among those you don't trust."
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"Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?"
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
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"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
Philosophy
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
Wisdom
"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."
Justice
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."
Inspirational
"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
Time
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
Courage
"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."
Faith
"War is the business of barbarians."
War
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
Wisdom
"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
Leadership
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