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«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers
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declaratory, original, properly, properly speaking, speaking, substance
«Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
ostentation, plainly, properly, properly speaking, speech, understood
«Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Hope
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emphatically, properly, properly speaking
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