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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Sir George Savile
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius
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Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Antoine Rivarol
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A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Lord Mansfield
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. -Harry A. Blackmun
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The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

Frances Rodman
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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 Southey
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To me, the 'tape' is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape! -Martin Zweig
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Sir Ralph Richardson
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Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Alfred E. Neuman
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would. -Kate Moss
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Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

Leonardo Dicaprio
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So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree.

Will Carleton
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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least. -John Morley
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

George Mason
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The best answer to bad speech is good speech.

Alan M. Dershowitz
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Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. -James C. Humes
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Charles M. De Talleyrand
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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. -Cindy Crawford
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Charles Simic
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Karl Popper
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -George Bernard Shaw
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard
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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. -Seneca
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Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est).

Seneca
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When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Seneca
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. -Seneca
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