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The Wisdom of Silence: Learning to Talk Less and Say More

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Dean Jones
Oct 14, 2017
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We are taught in proverbs to regard silence as golden, asked to practice it from childhood and at school, and how to use it to evade uncomfortable situations – and then resent it when used against us. Or is it what should come when we reach the limits of speech, as a German philosopher contended?

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