“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”

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Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BC

Jeffrey Dahmer (1960–1994) American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile

Inside Edition Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvmGdzgdLM

“Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.”

Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician

"Built to Last"
Built to Last (1989)

“Just breathe at the end of the line or on the punctuation. If you lose that, and lose the iambic pentameter, you'll lose all the sense of what you're saying. And if you do breathe, you'll find that Shakespeare's verse is like a surfboard.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk

“It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 65

“Companions of arms and lords. Do not believe that the one who is going to speak to them is a philosopher, I am a man of people, but you will understand that these men when they speak, speak with the heart.”

Pancho Villa (1878–1923) Mexican revolutionary

“This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

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