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Pause Quotes by Mark Twain
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
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- When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the… — Jim Bishop
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause… — Tony Benn
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- Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber
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- We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned… — Derek Tangye
- In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally… — Elwyn Brooks White