"This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams."
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"Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.""
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"In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak."
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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
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"Silence is safer than speech."
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"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."
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"Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change."
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"The whole end of speech is to be understood."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
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"The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators."
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"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense."
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"Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe."
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"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."
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"The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude."
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"What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?"
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"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."
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"I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls."
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"Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech"
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