"I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you canâ€™t hide anything â€¦ as you can in words."

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Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press

August Strindberg

#Past Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.”
“And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.”
“Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true â€” the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.”
“When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.”

Source : "E=MO2". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.
“Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage
“School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.”
“The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.”
“With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.”

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