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Letter "S" » Speech
«What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.»
«Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks»
«What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks»
«When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.»
«Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.»
«Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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Speech
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answered, half-hour, preparation, week, Wilson
«When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.»
Author: Bill Bradley
(Basketball Player, Senator)
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Expectation,
Speech
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elicit, elicited, eliciting, elicits, Speeches
«We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.»
«When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
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Speech
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get away, here and there, tangle, tangled, text
«We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice»
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