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  1. be silentverb

    Synonyms:
    be still, hark, hearken, hush, list, listen

    Antonyms:
    bawl, bellow, call, clamor, cry (out), ejaculate, exclaim, roar, scream, shout, shriek, vociferate, yell

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#19241hush
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  1. Melissa Taveras:

    The 100-mile rule pertains to the whole state of Florida and two-thirds of the country, but an individual that’s approached by an agent has every right to remain silent and not comply.

  2. Tom Petty:

    It creates a truth, some of my biggest heroes were in silent film.

  3. Pythagoras:

    It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  4. Reverend Martin Niemoeller:

    When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

  5. Baughman McLeod:

    Heat, because it is silent and invisible, does not have the telegenic nature of these other big climate hazards like floods, hurricanes and fires, people do n’t have the awareness that’s necessary, and that’s why it’s killing more people than any other climate hazard. It needs P.R. and branding.


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