Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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Our most surprising finding was a white spot in the left frontal lobe of the cortex, in a region called Broca’s area. In this case the change in color meant that there was a significant decrease in that part of the brain. Broca’s area is one of the speech centers of the brain, which is often affected in stroke patients when the blood supply to that region is cut off. Without a functioning Broca’s area, you cannot put your thoughts and feelings into words.
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I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
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A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
