"Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things."
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"None but the dead have free speech."
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"In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead."
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"The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it."
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"Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not die on me, ya understand? I can’t live without ya. Yer all I got, woman.’ Her breath caught in her lungs. ‘I don’t want to be here if you’re not."
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"Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings."
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"If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig."
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"Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave."
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"Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech."
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"He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH."
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"The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech."
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"If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and secures the continuing operation of the regime and its monopoly on politically intelligible speech."
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"The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation."
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"Speech is but the incorporation of thought."
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"P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment."
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"From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey."
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"Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs."
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"A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low."
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"Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech."
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"I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen."
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