Th' applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin to despise,/ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.
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You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

After listening to comments from members, we reviewed the current policy and trends related to the $500 deposit CCEC now requires for new work orders and we adjusted our policy accordingly. We felt this was an area where we needed to make an adjustment and we did.

I always get more applause than votes.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence