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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 06, 2015
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Tom Blair  
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736  
Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.
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John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004  
You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
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John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11  
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