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There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence.

— Laurence Tribe

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Laurence Tribe

About Laurence Tribe

Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American constitutional law scholar, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the American Constitution Society. He is the author of several books, including a major treatise, American Constitutional Law (1978) and has argued before the United States Supreme Court dozens of times.