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«I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.»
«It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.»
«I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
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Speech
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host, show host, talk show, Talk shows, talk show host
«I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.»
Author: Earl Weaver
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Brooks Robinson, frank, Frank and, Frank Robinson, Robinson
«I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all»
«I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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Freedom,
Speech
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advertise, encourage, freedom of speech, safety
«I feel your pain»
«It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Truth
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hear, one to, speak, takes
«It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Speech
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each week, impromptu, prepare, speech, This Week, Three Weeks, usually, weeks, week after week
«I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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attempting, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling
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