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Bob Cooke
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| "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only
edged tool that grows keener with constant use." | |
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Washington Irving
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| "All is not Gospell that thou doest speake. 1546" | |
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John Heywood
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| "An after-dinner speech should be like a lady"s dress-long enough to
cover the subject and short enough to be interesting." | |
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Richard Austen Butler
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| "As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so
men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish." | |
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Demosthenes
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| "As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at
the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I
should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the
central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two
minutes." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches." | |
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Otto von Bismarck
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| "Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer
thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch
thee." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "Eschew obfuscation." | |
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Unknown
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| "Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but
as a question." | |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
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| "I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will
not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard." | |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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| "I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being
instructive." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "I don"t let my mouth say nothin" my head can"t stand." | |
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Louis ?Satchmo? Armstrong
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| "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." | |
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Xenocrates
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| "I will try to follow the advice that a university president once
gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at
an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no
one expects you to say very much."" | |
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Anthony Lake
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| "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may
be led, like sheep to the slaughter." | |
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George Washington
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| "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively
calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought;
not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought
that we hate." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues,
what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own
voice. It is so easy, too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each
other"s good, not alone would every home be happier, but communities would
he enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech, to show someone a
better way to do a thing would be of much greater value." | |
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John Wanamaker
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| "If you haven"t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next
to me." | |
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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| "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don"t know
and I don"t care." | |
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William Safire
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| "Isn"t it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem
not worth saying ten minutes from now?" | |
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Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
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| "It does not require many words to speak the truth." | |
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Chief Joseph
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| "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor
judgment to hold their tongues." | |
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Jean de la Bruyere
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| "It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and
motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize
with life." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words
into the smallest amount of thoughts." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to
say, and then to say it with the utmost levity." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share, ... and no one dare disturb
the Sound of Silence." | |
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Simon & Garfunkel
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| "Say the best. Think the rest." | |
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Craig Seibold
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| "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let
it fall." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is
to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts." | |
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
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| "Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well
are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." | |
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Ben Jonson
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| "The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to
conceal them." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first to get
into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to
get your subject into your hearers." | |
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Gregg
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| "Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your
own; your words are so no more." | |
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Patrick Delany
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| "Three things matter in a speech: who says it, how he says it, and
what he says, and of the three, the last matters least." | |
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John, Lord Morley
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| "To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches
painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above
the thing said ? there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery,
of happy accident." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, And nothing
but what is necessary." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he
whispers." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "What orators lack in depth they make up for in length." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "What pity ?tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be
so ill!" | |
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Philip Massinger
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| "When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on
what he can do." | |
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Charles Michael Schwab
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| "When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like
flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell." | |
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John Dryden
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| "When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks
himself does not understand, this is metaphysics." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "When words are scarce they"re seldom spent in vain." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is
unspoken, you reign over it." | |
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Proverb
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| "When your heart speaks, take good notes." | |
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Judith Campbell
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| "When your work speaks for itself, don"t interrupt." | |
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Henry J. Kaiser
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| "Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free
speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward
the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold
abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day,
but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the
race." | |
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Charles Bradlaugh
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