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When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity.

— Diego Rivera

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

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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?

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