Emily Dickinson
Poet
"My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word"
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Spokes
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Philip Roth
Novelist
"Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them."
Plato
Philosopher
"Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?"
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"My whole life, I never spoke a single-word."
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"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
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"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?"
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"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
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"Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke."
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"I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night."
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"I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital."
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"When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened."
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"Things are often spoke and seldom meant."
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"He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom."
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"I thought of the future, and spoke of the past."
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"When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer."
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"I spoke to ears that refused to hear."
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"The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him."
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"Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel."
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"He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything."
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"I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me."
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"But the silence spoke volumes."
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"Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to."
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"Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya"
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"I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock."
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