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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.


Charles Caleb Colton


#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.


Mos Def


#i #presence #say #speaks #volumes

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.


Benjamin Disraeli


#almost #author #bad #books #children

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#american #become #cannot #chance #converse

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.


Jeanette Winterson


#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.


Thomas Carlyle


#cut #garment #heart #intellect #speaks

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.


Thomas Harrison


#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.


Martin Heidegger


#german #language #merely #others #speak

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.


Heinrich Heine


#fool #man #may #same #speak

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.


Lucille Roybal-Allard


#american dream #asian #barriers #challenges #dream






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