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Who amongst us knows whether our mothers truly favour silence, or whether the price of asking a man where he has been is far greater than the shame of knowing?”

— Tjawangwa Dema

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"Here is a line between mana and man
and nature
man-made
as all false boundaries are".

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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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