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Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty… — J. B. Priestley
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human… — Northrop Frye
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in… — Thorstein Veblen
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of… — Louise Erdrich
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. — Amelia Barr
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that… — Harold Rosenberg
President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with… — Tina Fey
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives.… — Bob Hayes
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech.… — Rupert Sheldrake
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his… — Kevin Watkins
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. — Matthew McConaughey
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. — Ben Okri
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does… — Bob Menendez
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have… — Jonathan Zittrain
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings… — Francesco Clemente

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