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• When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.

  Mary Whipple

  Team, Commitment, Winning

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• Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Simple, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.76, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

  Lance Morrow

  Art, Fall, Ideas

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• Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Talking, Four, Want

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

  Cornel West

  Cracks, Needs, Way

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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• What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

  Herta Muller

  Writing, Hands, Said

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• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Practice

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Movie, Music, Art

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• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Incense

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• In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

  Laurie R. King

  Expression, Silent Films, Nails

  "Novelist Laurie R. King talks silent film, Sherlock Holmes and arghhh – pirates!". Interview with Thomas Gladysz, blog.sfgate.com. September 5, 2011.

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• A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Winter

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.14, Booklassic

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• It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Echoes, Sound

  Charles Dickens (1851). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales”

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• Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Moving, Writing, Poetry

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• There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

  Sarah Doudney

  Eye, Perfect, Simplicity

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Memorial Day, Brother

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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• I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.

  Patina Miller

  Home, Night, Silent Night

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• After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Fall, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• ... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.

  Robert Musil

  Party, Ideas, Community

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• Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
  When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
  So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
  Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

  Ovid

  Death, Lying, Men

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• Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Memories, Father

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.268, Courier Corporation

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• It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
  That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
  The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Mind, Proud

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage

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• Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

  Mason Cooley

  Music, Numbers, Harmony

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