"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence."

-- Pythagoras

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.”

Source : Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books
“I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.”
“It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.”
“Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.”
“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a momentâ€” the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”
“I think I've proven that I'm throw-first, and then run if I need to.”
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

Source : Quoted in Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, rev. ed., ed. B. M. Oliver and J. Billingham (1973). An earlier version by A. R. Burn appeared in a book review by Burn in The Classical Review, June 1969: "absence of evidence is not identical with evidence of absence."
“Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!”

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