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A beautiful face is a mute recommendation. Votes: 4

Publilius Syrus

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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Votes: 4

Robert Browning

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I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. Votes: 4

Shirley Manson

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Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry. Votes: 4

Mark McKinnon

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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. Votes: 4

Steve Martin

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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. Votes: 4

Marlee Matlin

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. Votes: 4

J. G. Ballard

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. Votes: 4

Mary Webb

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. Votes: 4

June Jordan

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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. Votes: 4

James Earl Jones

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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. Votes: 4

Adele

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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. Votes: 4

Joan Miro

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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. Votes: 4

Tallulah Bankhead

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song. Votes: 3

James Grahame

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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Votes: 3

Walter Scott

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Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy. Votes: 3

Nora Roberts

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My greatest weapon is mute prayer. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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What is a farm but a mute gospel? Votes: 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Votes: 2

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute? Votes: 2

Harry Belafonte

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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility, Votes: 2

Kate Millett

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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. Votes: 2

Kate Millett

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Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. Votes: 2

Tove Jansson

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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. Votes: 2

James Earl Jones

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Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Votes: 2

Thomas Gray

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I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. Votes: 2

Michael McKean

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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. Votes: 2

Maria Montessori

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There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. Votes: 2

Charles Dickens

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics. Votes: 2

Bonnie Bassler

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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute. Votes: 2

Burt Rutan

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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something. Votes: 2

Banks

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I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that. Votes: 2

Marlee Matlin

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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. Votes: 2

Hans Jonas

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It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value. Votes: 2

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics. Votes: 2

Bonnie Bassler

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When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. Votes: 2

Tyga

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I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense curiosity that no Keep Out sign could mute. Physicists do, of course, show a healthy respect for High Voltage, Radiation, and Liquid Hydrogen signs. They are not reckless. I can think of only six who have been killed on the job. Votes: 2

Luis Walter Alvarez

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Beauty is a mute deception. Votes: 0

Theophrastus

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Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay

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the mute protest in your own bones Votes: 0

George Orwell

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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. Votes: 0

Akiane Kramarik

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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman

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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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O have a care of natures that are mute! Votes: 0

George Meredith

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Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Votes: 0

Archibald MacLeish

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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression. Votes: 0

Ben Okri

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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute. Votes: 0

Rumi

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The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. Votes: 0

Malcolm Lowry

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Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid. Votes: 0

Ryan Montgomery

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The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. Votes: 0

Thomas Harris

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If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap? Votes: 0

Steven Wright

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Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? Votes: 0

Harry Belafonte

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A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute. Votes: 0

Patricia Gaffney

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When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. Votes: 0

Ovid

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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ... Votes: 0

Federico Garcia Lorca

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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? Votes: 0

Abraham Cowley

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Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . . Votes: 0

Michelle Moran

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We commute to computers; Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors. We survivalists, turned to consumers... Votes: 0

Talib Kweli

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Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear! Votes: 0

Rumi

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Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. Votes: 0

Ann Landers

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Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. Votes: 0

Anthony Eden

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Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. Votes: 0

Richard Strauss

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I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely. Votes: 0

Leanna Renee Hieber

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The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. Votes: 0

Peter Jackson

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All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. Votes: 0

Peter Shaffer

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Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me. Votes: 0

Murray Bookchin

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Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. Votes: 0

Dave Attell

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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute. Votes: 0

David Abram

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer. Votes: 0

John Milton

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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have. Votes: 0

Carson McCullers

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The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. Votes: 0

Conor Oberst

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We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. Votes: 0

Daniel Keyes

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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Eugenides

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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record. Votes: 0

Andreas Feininger

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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. Votes: 0

Sonya Hartnett

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Interested in some "undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele"Become mute. Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute. Votes: 0

Eliza Acton

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I thought he was a quiet guy. Then I found out he is a mute, and then I knew he was a quiet guy. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute. Votes: 0

Thomas Kibble Hervey

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues. Votes: 0

John Milton

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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. Votes: 0

SaigyÅ

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I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. Votes: 0

Robert Herrick

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If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear. Votes: 0

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

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One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us Votes: 0

Ikechukwu Izuakor

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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying. Votes: 0

Stephen Keshi

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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise. Votes: 0

Allie Brosh

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Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute. Votes: 0

Shams Tabrizi

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Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity. Votes: 0

Ihab Hassan

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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance. Votes: 0

Elie Wiesel

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He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute. Votes: 0

Harold MacMillan

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Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould. Votes: 0

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart ! Votes: 0

Rumi

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On TV, I can hit the mute button and silence any moron. I wish real life came with a hush button I could push and enjoy instant quiet. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals? Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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We all laced together"a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti. Votes: 0

Ruta Sepetys

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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, Iâm okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, itâs unsettling. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control. Votes: 0

Anna C Salter

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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. AndI, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, oftennot. Life is a dream surely." Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion. Votes: 0

Simon Hoggart

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Anna C. Salter

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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week. Votes: 0

Robert Duvall

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Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? Votes: 0

Hartley Coleridge

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The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it! Votes: 0

Issa Rae

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The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory. Votes: 0

George Steiner

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... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them. Votes: 0

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears. Votes: 0

Witold Walczak

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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama XIV

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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder. Votes: 0

Neil MacGregor

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I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God! Votes: 0

Charles Hanson Towne

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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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It was morning distilled, the sun rising on a quiet world, a mute witness. To Liz, it was both the oldest miraculous event, and the newest. This one belonged to her, and she to it. Votes: 0

Sonja Yoerg

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Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer. Votes: -1

Amy Lowell

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Am Mute hängt der Erfolg.

Erfolg

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Am Mute hängt der Erfolg.

Fontane, Theodor

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Ich werde nie eine Symphonie komponieren! Du hast keinen Begriff davon, wie es unsereinem zu Mute ist, wenn er immer so einen Riesen (Beethoven) hinter sich marschieren hört.

Brahms, Johannes

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

Sri Aurobindo

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I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

Eduardo Galeano

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Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

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And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

George Hamilton

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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

Cesare Pavese

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...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

David Richo

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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

Charles Churchill

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I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

John Banville

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You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

Max Lucado

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Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

Joseph Conrad

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Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

John Ruskin

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C'mon, sweetie, you can say it. (Delphine) (She moved his mouth playfully with her hands.) You don't suck, Delphine. I"you. C'mon, Jericho. I only bite in the bedroom. You can do this. I know you're not really mute. (Delphine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

Huston Smith

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How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

William Jennings Bryan

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I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

Dan Wells

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Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of any kind of literal narrative. And that's why I really try not to pump up motivation or plot or anything like that.

Gregory Crewdson

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Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.

Marija Gimbutas

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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Khalil Gibran

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The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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A cat's body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying," Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. "You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission." Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

Rachel Vincent

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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke

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For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

Cornelius Plantinga

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