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Let thy speech
be better than silence, or be silent.
-- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
?20 B.C., Greek Historian
What this
country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
-- Hansell B. Duckett
Speech is
power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is
to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Listening to
someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words
played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face
before you is never what you hear when you have before you a
winding tape.
-- Oriana Fallaci
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For mankind,
speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and
committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry
of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with
mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable
tower.
-- Paul Goodman
1911-1972, American Author,
Poet, Critic
Everything
becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
-- Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss
Novelist, Poet
Speak clearly,
if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it
fall.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author,
Wit, Poet
Sweet
Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of
tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it,
lest it do thee.
-- John Hoskins
1566-1638, British Lawyer,
Wit
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