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When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest ↗

— Winston Churchill

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If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. ↗

— Trevanian

#figures-of-speech #irony #speech

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

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His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#language #song #soul #speech #speech

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#travel #wisdom #speech

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?” For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.” I can live with that,” he said, and kissed her. ↗

— Laura Lee Guhrke

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