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Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
"I'm often silent when I'm screaming inside."
It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.-- Audre Lorde
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-- David Tyson Gentry
There's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.-- Silent Bob (Clerks)
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
Serving drinks on aircraft causes turbulence.
When nothing else remains, one must scream. Silence is the ultimate crime against humanity.-- Nadezhda Mandelstam
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."-- Harvey Fierstein
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."-- G. K. Chesterton
Coincidence happens.
I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.-- Zaffel
It's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.-- Abraham Lincoln
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.-- G.B. Stearn
XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-- Henry Van Dyke
Luxury is the main cause of boredom; Boredom is a main cause of extreme thoughts, eg. violence.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas."-- Aldous Huxley (On Silence; 1946)
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.-- Aristotle
Hindsight is an exact science.
"Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism."-- Noam Chomsky
"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."-- Bern Williams
Every silver lining has a cloud.