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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we…
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await…
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from…
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the…
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among…
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
— Xenocrates
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Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility…
— Chris Kraus
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
— Gautama Buddha
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
— Maurice Blanchot
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When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and…
— Meher Baba
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to…
— Anna Kamienska
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
— Umar
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I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
— Chen Guangcheng
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
— Joseph Conrad
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Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a…
— Dalai Lama
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