Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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- real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
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