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"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."

"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."

"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."

"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."

"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."

"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."

"What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves."

"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations."

"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."

"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."
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