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Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

— Alice Hoffman The Dovekeepers (2011)

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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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