Speech Quotes
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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.
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I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
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c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
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Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.
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In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle William Butler Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
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I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.
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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
