"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
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"The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words."
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"The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech"
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"Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour."
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"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."
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"Better than a long speech is a single quietening word."
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"I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech."
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"A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man""
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"Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have."
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"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life."
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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
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"The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere."
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"Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches."
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"Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life."
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"Speech is the mirror of the mind."
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"To me no profitable speech sounds ill."
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"Speeches pass away, but acts remain."
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"Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping."
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"He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe."
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