"Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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— Michael Hudson (economist)

Economics1939

#society

"So she won’t sleep better alone, And he won’t sleep better alone, No they won’t feel better alone. ~ "Sleep Better"

— Pete Yorn

Music1974

#solitude

"Through his writings he attacked and exposed many social evils of his time. In one of his earlier published in 1907 in Hindi, Prema, he describes the plight of child widows ostracized by Hindu society…"

— Premchand

Literature1880–1936

#society

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— Scott Ambler

Literature1966

#ethics