Speech Quotes
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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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You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
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In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
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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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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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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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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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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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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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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
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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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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
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Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.
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From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
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A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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In any case, Maya's efficiency of speech was extremely helpful in the maintenance of a relationship that I was subconsciously keeping on the knife-edge between casual and serious. She was capable of talking with her eyes and her body, but she mostly chose to use her mouth. I didn't mind this.
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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.
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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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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
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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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The poetry of speech.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
