"I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker."
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"We never listen when we are eager to speak."
"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
"There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas."
"Reason speaks and feeling bites"
"Serious numbers will speak to us always."
"To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable."
"To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves."
"Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash."
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor."
"To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect."
"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
"Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything."
"We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?"
"Who will speak for Planet Earth?"
"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
"He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her."
"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."
"The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it."
"Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy."