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• I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fire, Mouths, Might

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Animal, Soul

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• No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Ignorance, Mouths

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• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

  Neil MacGregor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Voice

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• Either our history shall with full mouth
  Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
  Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
  Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Speak, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

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• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Sight, Cameras

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Hands, Looks, Mould

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• . . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into walls and be mute, let them drift and be lost. If you hold the reins too tight, they won't spring to life.

  Tina Howe

  Wall, Spring, Fall

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• . . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.

  Christopher Moore

  Upset, Beavers, Okay

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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• Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
  
  And make me cower in the dark.
  
  Remind me that I'm all alone
  
  And draw upon my face your mark.
  
  How is it that you capture me,
  
  When all my thoughts deny your force?
  
  Is it the reptile in my brain
  
  That lets your terror run its course?
  
  
  
  Baseless Fear undoes us all
  
  Despite our quest for lofty goals.
  
  We would-be Galahads don't die,
  
  Fear just freezes all our souls.
  
  It keeps us mute when feeling love,
  
  Reminding us what we might lose.
  
  And if by chance we meet success,
  
  Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Fear, Dark

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ignorant, Body, Cleansing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2000). “Snapshots: 20th century mother-daughter fiction”, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

  John Milton

  Fall, Voice, Evil

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.8

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• Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

  Tove Jansson

  Dog, Smell, Knows

  Tove Jansson (2012). “The True Deceiver”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Race, Care

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.97, Book Tree

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• A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.

  Cesar Aira

  Distance, Sky, Bird

  César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing

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• Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Doors, Musical

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feet, Drink, Deaf

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'

  Pusha T

  New York, Men, Cities

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Interview with Steve McQueen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Silence, Trying, Looks

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• Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

  Murray Bookchin

  Animal, Individuality, Deny

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

  Richard Strauss

  Couple, Thinking, Degrees

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