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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls." »Mother Theresa
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"You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." »Edward Steichen
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose
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"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
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"When Owl is singing, the Night is silence. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
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"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." »Marcel Marceau
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky." »Andrew Schneider
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"silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." »Mark van Doren
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" »Peter de Jager
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." »Gordon R. Dickson
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"You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut." »Sally Berger
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"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes." »Harold B. Lee
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"Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Berlin wall is the defining achievement of socialism." »George Will
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"Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great wall of China between them!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall." »Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world." »Charles Hanson Towne
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"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon
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