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• While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Warrior, Men

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Learning, Men, Singing

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

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• Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lonely, Winter, Bird

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Pyramids, Evil

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

  Jose Saramago

  Fall, Elderly, Scratches

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• There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Mind, Development

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

  Robert E. Howard

  Sound, Born, Invaders

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.163, Del Rey

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• There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, World, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.901, Harvard University Press

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• Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing.

  Steven M. Greer

  Nice, Life Changing, Boys

  "UFOs: What the Government Really Knows" by Jean-Noel Bassior, November 2005.

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• It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

  Alain Badiou

  Speak, Grants, Contrary

  Alain Badiou (1999). “Manifesto for Philosophy”, p.95, SUNY Press

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• About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Speak, Can Not

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  Richard Aldington

  Dream, Rhyme, Oar

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Boys, Thinking

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.280, Da Capo Press

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Love, Lying, Fall

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

  Frederick Douglass

  Literature, Slave, Masters

  Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.61, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Coffee, Two, House

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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• We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

  Martin Niemoller

  Men, Arms, Speak

  "Religion in the Reich" by Michael Power, (p. 142), 1939.

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence

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• When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.

  Haile Gerima

  Writing, Names, Venice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rushing, Swim, Rolling

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  John Muir

  Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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• Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

  Andy Partridge

  Rainy Day, Silent Films, Play

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• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Understanding

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