"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised."
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"What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?"
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"The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself."
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"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains."
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"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts."
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"Speak briefly and to the point."
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"Do not speak - unless it improves on silence."
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"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature."
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"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"
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"The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will."
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"Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow."
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"I speak only one language, and it is not my own."
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"It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly."
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"He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it."
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"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."
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"I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up."
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"You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have."
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