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The structure of this short story is a fable told from the point of view of a Puerto Rican parrot, a critically endangered species endemic to Puerto Rico.It describes the country's Arecibo radio telescope and how, in 1974, the telescope was used to broadcast a radio message from humanity into deep space to demonstrate humanity's intelligence.
Your Silence Will Not Protect You was published posthumously in order to bring together Lorde's essential poetry, speeches, and essays, into one volume for the first time. As Silver Press states, "Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world ...
The Great Silence (Italian: Il grande silenzio) is a 1968 revisionist spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci.An Italian-French co-production, the film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee (in her film début) and Frank Wolff, with Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Marisa Merlini and Carlo D'Angelo in supporting roles.
The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The first Desert Father was Paul of Thebes , and the most well known was Anthony the Great , who moved to the desert in AD 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism.
The Wisdom of the Ancients [35] is a book written by Bacon in 1609, and published in Latin, in which he claims playfully to unveil the hidden meanings and teachings behind ancient Greek fables. The book opens with two dedications: one to the Earl of Salisbury, the other to the University of Cambridge.
"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need ...
"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."
Great Silence may refer to: The Great Silence observed by monastics after Compline during the hours of night; Into Great Silence, a 2005 documentary film by Philip Gröning on the Order of Carthusians; The Fermi paradox (astronomy); also referred to as the silencium universi or silentium universi; The Great Silence, a film/western by Sergio ...