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• If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

  Keith Jarrett

  Silence, Sound, Should

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• It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Silence, Difficult

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• Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Argument, Weak

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• The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, Taste, Appetite

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.927, Harvard University Press

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• Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Silence, Quality

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Silence, Delicacy, Charm

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes ... Author's edition, revised”, p.113

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• Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

  Robin Morgan

  Silence, Firsts, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2001). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, Washington Square Press

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• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

  Erica Jong

  Voice, Silence, Guilt

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

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• To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Sea, Silence, Pearls

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• I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

  Marina Abramovic

  Communication, Thinking, Silence

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• customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

  Sarah Siddons

  Cheer, Order, Voice

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• Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

  Michelle Malkin

  Silence, Speak, Surrender

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

  Erica Jong

  Silence, Blunt, Instruments

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

  John Main

  Silence, Meditation, Challenges

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• Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Silence, Weakness

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Meaningful, Native American, Space

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• We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Believe, Native American, Perfect

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• Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Silence, Tactics, Distrust

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• Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

  William Penn

  Silence, Folly

  William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.34

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• Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Ornaments

  "Ajax". 293,

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• True silence is really endless speech.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Speech, Endless

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Men, Silence, Heed

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