One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Bryant H. McGill
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
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We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
Pierre Nicole
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I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
Susan Rice
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My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
Pedro Martinez
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
Rick Larsen
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We've been conditioned to be incredibly avoidant. 'I'm afraid I'll be called a racist if I say something wrong,' is the familiar retort. Well, okay, that's scary and difficult, but staying silent, avoiding the issue, doesn't mean that racism goes away.
Marjorie Liu
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
Lenny Abrahamson
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I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy's body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home.
Janet Mock
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de Balzac
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.
George Takei
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Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.
Fred Armisen
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On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.
Elliott Abrams
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman
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The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
William Alexander
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I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Sandra Cisneros
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Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.
Isabella Rossellini
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We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants.
Adoniram Judson
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I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.
Maysoon Zayid
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I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.
Zoe Kazan
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It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
Anita Hill
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