"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest."
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"It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility."
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"They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it"
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"The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems."
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"Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things."
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"Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society."
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"I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed."
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"I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach."
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"Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop."
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"The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action."
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"People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to."
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"A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance"
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"A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos."
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"It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation."
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"Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them."
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"Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness."
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"The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song."
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"The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art."
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"Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp."
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"Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."
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