"Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow."
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"My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken."
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"The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech."
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"I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."
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"Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books."
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"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
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"Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association."
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"Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech."
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"Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love."
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"Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham."
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"Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought."
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"A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection."
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"It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it."
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"New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles."
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"I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not."
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"The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases."
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"I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech."
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"Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech."
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"Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech."
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"Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?"
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