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«Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts»
«No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
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Belief
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«Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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Alcohol
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drunkenness, speaks in, The Coming
«God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.»
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«No doubt but ye are the People - your throne is above the King's. / Whoso speaks in your presence must say acceptable things.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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«He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.»
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