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Tag Name "Speech" (1639)

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Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
Jacques Barzun
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
James Earl Jones
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Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
James Harvey Robinson
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
Isaac of Nineveh
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Speech isn't for agony.
Hortense Calisher
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
Anthony Trollope
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
Plutarch
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Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Publilius Syrus
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Speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
George Eliot
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Peggy Noonan
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Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
Peggy Noonan
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Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
Helen Keller
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
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Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
Rickey Henderson
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
Susanne Katherina Langer
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
Seneca the Younger
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger
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Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon
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Speech is great, but silence is greater.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
David Frum
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