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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.


Emile M. Cioran
Tags: Who Than Feel
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.


Pythagoras
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuangzi
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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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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.


Xenophanes
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.


Henry David Thoreau
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In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
Graham Taylor
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I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.
Allan Gurganus
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You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.
Julian Baggini
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Any reaction is better than none.


Gavin Rossdale
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I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.


Robert Wilson
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I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.
Jonathan Ive
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
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There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.


James Cash Penney
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Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.


William S. Burroughs
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
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I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.


Shayne Ward
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There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.
Thomas S. Monson
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.
George Eastman