"Do not too hastily conclude that silence is indifference. Indifference is not to care, not to act, not even to think or breathe. Indifference is inhuman and inhumane. Silence, on the other hand, is almost always premeditated, a willful act. Without silence there would be no sound."
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Justin Bryan Snider, a teacher, who posted this on his daily quotation board on October 17, 2006 at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong
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