Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
– Robert G Ingersoll
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- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
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- Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns. – John R Dallas Jr
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- The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
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- More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
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- Darkness engulfed me…There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold. – Amanda Hocking
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- My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below.. – Jonathan Friesen
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- Understanding the value of a security and whether it’s trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating. – Coreen T Sol
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- A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity. – Todd Stocker