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  • The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Baruch Spinoza He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Emily Post Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ovid In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Aldous Huxley In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Fielding Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bono Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bruford My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • George Eliot No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is more eloquent than words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Mark Twain The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Augustus Hare There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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