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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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"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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"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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"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."
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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thought
"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
Work
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
Vision
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
Man
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."
Thought
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
Vision
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
Experience
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