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"If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
Marcel Proust
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
Benjamin Franklin
"A man only curses because he doesn't know the words to express what is on his mind."
Malcolm X
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."
Kin Hubbard
"Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought."
Author Unknown
"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
Benjamin Franklin
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Xenocrates
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Confucius
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
Bertrand Russell
"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
Calvin Coolidge
"Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making."
Thomas Sowell
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
Frank Tyger
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
Booker T. Washington
"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."
Henry Kissinger
"Eloquence may set fire to reason."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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