"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
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"The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself."
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"Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind."
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"One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures."
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"If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well."
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"To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language."
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"The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard."
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"Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop."
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"It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans."
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"[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it."
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"Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it."
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"Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him."
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"One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
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"Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can."
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"One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires."
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"Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him."
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"Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided."
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"God is the word that speaks itself."
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"I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women."
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"perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind."
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