"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to."
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"So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore."
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"Eyes...They speak all languages."
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"Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy."
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"Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe."
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"Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways."
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"We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"We always speak well when we manage to be understood."
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"Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit."
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"Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to."
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"If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?"
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"We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles."
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"The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?"
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"Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety."
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"Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all."
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"THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE."
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"In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same."
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"There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words."
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