"Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak."
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"One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms."
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"When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!"
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"A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act."
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"I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth."
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"There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom."
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"He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy."
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"If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more."
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"She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop."
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"Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak."
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"When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard."
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"Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow."
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"Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end."
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"They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye."
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"What, can the devil speak true?"
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"We speak, but it is God who teaches."
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"The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible."
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"Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration."
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"Small sorrows speak great ones are silent."
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"Only the heart can speak or hear that which is authentic"
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