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"Speech is silver, silence is golden" has been described as "perhaps the best known of the proverbs concerned with silence". [1]: 239 Similar proverbs in English include "Still waters run deep" and "Empty vessels make the most sound." [2]
Florence Scovel was born in Camden, New Jersey, the daughter of Alden Cortlandt Scovel and Emily Hopkinson Scovel. [3] Her great-great-grandfather, [4] Francis Hopkinson, signed the Declaration of Independence and is the earliest-documented American composer of song. [5]
They have been a motif in pictures, such as the ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock printings) by Keisai Eisen, and are frequently represented in modern culture. Representation of Mahatma Gandhi 's smaller statue of the three monkeys Bapu (Mizaru), Ketan (Kikazaru) and Bandar (Iwazaru), at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat , India
John George Butler (born 16 May 1937) is a British author, YouTuber and retired farmer [1] living in Derbyshire. [2] A graduate of the University of Nottingham, [3] Butler is known for having written several books describing his experiences with meditation and spirituality gained through international travel and study, [4] and has accumulated over 200 thousand subscribers on his YouTube [5 ...
Robert Adams was born on January 21, 1928, in Manhattan [4] and grew up in New York City, US. [5] Adams claimed that from as far back as he could remember, he had visions of a two-foot tall, white-haired, bearded man seated at the foot of his bed who used to talk to him in a language that he did not understand. [6]
Munro published variant versions of her stories, sometimes within a short span of time. Her stories "Save the Reaper" and "Passion" came out in two different versions in the same year, in 1998 and 2004 respectively. Two other stories were republished in a variant version about 30 years apart, "Home" (1974/2006/2014) and "Wood" (1980/2009).
Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. [11] He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS.
Additionally, a vow of silence can be made to express a bold statement. This type may be to make a statement about issues such as child poverty.An example of this is the November 30th Vow of Silence for Free The Children, in which students in Canada take a 24-hour vow of silence to protest against poverty and child labour.