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en We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
  Joan Didion

en The Silent Service is all together too silent, ... It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.

en The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor.
  Thomas Carlyle

en I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

en If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
  Jaroslav Seifert

en Mr. Williams, I'm gonna advise you that you have the right to remain silent. But you know what?On behalf of Jessie, I'm going to hereby waive that right to remain silent. We all are going to waive that right to remain silent.

en Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

en Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
  Winston Churchill

en Most 'silent' heart attacks really aren't silent; they're just not noticed. If questioned carefully, many patients will recall some vague symptoms, such as indigestion or back pain, that they blamed on something else at the time.

en Bob said and thought what the silent majority -- the God-fearing taxpayer and the backbone of the country -- thought. He wrote it like it was.

en Secret study, silent thought is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. What a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought.
  William Ellery Channing

en A flower unblown; a book unread; A tree with fruit unharvested; A path untrod - A landscape whose wide border lies In silent shade 'neath silent skies; A wondrous fountain yet unsealed; - This is the Year that for you waits Beyond to-morrow's mystic
  Horatio Nelson

en We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

en The Ski Association already has an official pasta, an official car, an official asset management company, an official hair care provider and an official Internet services provider. Does it really need an official alcoholic beverage?

en Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue


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