"True silence is really endless speech."
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"Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life."
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"Speak briefly and to the point."
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
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"It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience."
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"All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom."
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"Speech is silver, silence is golden."
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"I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on."
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
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"Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few."
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"It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant."
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"There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence."
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"I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking."
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"Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence."
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"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
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"Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent."
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"All the great speakers were bad speakers at first."
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"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."
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"Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music."
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"Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few."
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