"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation."

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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."

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"Silence is the virtue of fools."

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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind."

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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

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"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]"

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"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]"

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"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

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"When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began."

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