Speech Quotes
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Hate speech, racism, and bigotry are intolerable realities that we must all come together to take action against.
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
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Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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We have only prepared the ground. If it is possible to continue? .... it's not clear yet. We have to wait until the speech.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The poetry of speech.
