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Silence is better than unmeaning words.


Pythagoras
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.


Randeep Hooda
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At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Robert Stone
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The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne Dyer
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
Felice Picano
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
Apollonius of Tyana
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TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace
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There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Daniel Barenboim
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I won't tolerate lying.


Vito Fossella
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When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
Geoffrey Rush
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.


Thomas Hood
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Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.


Charles Buxton
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Listen to the sound of silence.


Paul Simon
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
Frederick William Faber
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.


Lech Walesa
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.


H. L. Mencken
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I like peace and solitude and silence.


Carla Bruni