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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.


Edmund Burke

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SOURCE UNKNOWN But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do m...
ARTHUR CAYLEY It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...
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DEYTH BANGER It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ...
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY All that has happened is Apple's patent has received final rejection, and that is a non-event,
ROGER COOK I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
JOANNE HARRIS Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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Or to re...
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STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS When you feel at sea in an abyss of emotions, reconnecting to the beauty of your soul can be difficu...
LORRAINE NILON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
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TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Now speak, / Or be for ever silent.
PHILIP MASSINGER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacop...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
UNKNOWN Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.
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EDMUND BURKE Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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