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"Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are." »Rush Hour
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." »Buddha
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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." »Buddha
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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." »Mario M Cuomo
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." »Fran Lebowitz
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"It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly." »Smiley Blanton
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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." »Moshe Dayan
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something." »Saul Bellow
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"talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much." »John Wayne
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"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"The idle mind knows not what it wants." »Ennius
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"If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle." »Samuel Johnson
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." »Nelson Mandela
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"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." »Thomas Jefferson
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"#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious." »Samuel Butler
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The Devil finds work for idle hands." »Proverb
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"All universal moral principles are idle fantasies." »Marquis de Sade
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"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion." »Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk." »Fred Allen
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"The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode" »Andrew Schneider
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"All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo
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