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• I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Alternatives, Viewpoints

  "Women in Music 2012". www.elle.com. April 10, 2012.

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• It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Time, Science, People

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

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• Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gun, Hollywood, Republican

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• In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

  Steve Martin

  Song, Play, Comedy

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• Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

  Thomas Gray

  Country, Blood, Tyrants

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 57 (1751)

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• So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

  James Earl Jones

  School, Years, Michigan

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Silence, Individuality

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Soul, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

  Thomas Harris

  Advantage

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

  Michelle Moran

  Men, Her Beauty, Might

  Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

  Tacitus

  Nature, Freedom, Animal

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, IV. 17,

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• Beauty is a mute deception.

  Theophrastus

  Beauty, Deception

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• Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Preparation, Disobedience

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.363, Oxford University Press

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• Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Hate, Together, Strange

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• Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

  Harry Belafonte

  Voice, America, Black

  "Harry Belafonte in guns plea: 'Where is the raised voice of black America?'" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Passion, Intellectual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

  Dana Gioia

  Cousin, Real, Names

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.22, Macmillan

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• If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

  Steven Wright

  Mother, Kids, Hands

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• The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.) Translated by William S. Merwin

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kings, Boys, Voice

  Federico Garcia Lorca, “The Little Mute Boy”

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• the mute protest in your own bones

  George Orwell

  Bones, Protest

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing

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• Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Spring, Lying

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Forget”

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• C’mon, sweetie, you can say it. (Delphine) (She moved his mouth playfully with her hands.) You don’t suck, Delphine. I…you. C’mon, Jericho. I only bite in the bedroom. You can do this. I know you’re not really mute. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Mouths, Bedroom

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Favors, Undercover

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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