Quotes with speech

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  • T. S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Auberon Waugh Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
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  • Bela Lugosi Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alan Dershowitz Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anne McCaffrey But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Camille Paglia Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Carol Loomis Every regulatory speech on derivatives takes a bow to their hedging 'benefits.' Less publicly, regulators pay their respects to derivative profits, a blessed relief from the banks' troubled loans to less-developed countries, highly leveraged companies, and real estate swingers.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Shane Leslie Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Kahn For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
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  • William Shakespeare For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Paul Goodman For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Salman Rushdie Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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