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Letter "S" » Speech
«The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin»
«Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Books,
Speech,
Writing
| Keywords:
evidence, figures, figure of speech, public figure, Speeches
«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»
Author: John Morley
(Biographer, Journalist, Statesman)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
latter, The three
«The most precious things in speech are pauses»
«Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
abuse, height, mistaken, mysteries, prescription, prescriptions, vague
«The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
after a fashion, fashioned, fashioning, grain, out of fashion, sieve, sift, sifted, sifting, speech
«Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover»
«The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them»
«The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech»
«The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Sin,
Socialism,
Speech
| Keywords:
eminent, profit and loss, socialist
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