Motivational Quotes of the Day

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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 26, 2014
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Saadi (1184 - 1291)  
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)  
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928  
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
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Barry Neil Kaufman  
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