#speech

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ↗

— George Savile

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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

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Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

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