Quotes with speaking

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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Watson There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don't comment.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Will Durant To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Maurice Blanchot To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Brandon Routh Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Carolyn See What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Blake Mycoskie When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Barry Eisler When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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