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• Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.

  Warren Buffett

  Business Success, Next, Gone

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• He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

  Publilius Syrus

  Speak, Silent, Knows

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• Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

  Walter Wriston

  Rising Prices, Essentials, Wages

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letter Words.

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• Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Real, Men, Blood

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• Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

  Al Gore

  Commitment, Views, Majority

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• Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

  Evan Esar

  Mouths, Congress, Members

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• A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

  George D. Prentice

  Father, Political, Politics

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• Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Long, Silence, Way

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• Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Shining, Dresses, Care

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• Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Humanity, Normal, Mark

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• The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Literature, Variables, Familiar

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• Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Truth, Lying, Alphabet

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• Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Men, Would Be, Littles

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Asking, Spirit

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Thinking, Speaking Well, Firsts

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• He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present.

  John H. Vincent

  Men, Discovery, Research

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 414, 1895.

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• A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Information, Entertaining, Detached

  "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, August 7, 1939.

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• When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.

  Hasan of Basra

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Quoted in Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq Vol.1 p. 156,

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• It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Thinking, Should, Knows

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.211

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• Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

  Cleobulus

  Speak

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• Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Silence, World, Mystery

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• Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Confused, Voice, Mind

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

  Corra May Harris

  Rain, Flower, Hysteria

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• The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

  John Heider

  Leadership, Long, Silence

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.23, Green Dragon Books

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• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

  Ralph Charell

  Love, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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