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Man does not
speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or
rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is
to think.
-- Octavio Paz
1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist
When you have
spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you
reign over it.
-- Arabian Proverb
Sayings of Arabian Origin
People resent
articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
-- Frederic Raphael
1931-, British Author, Critic
Speech is
external thought, and thought internal speech.
-- Antoine Rivarol
1753-1801, French Journalist,
Epigrammatist
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The world does
not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have
programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold
beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak.
Only other human beings can do that.
-- Richard Rorty
1931-, American Philosopher
Speech is
always bolder than action.
-- Johann Friedrich Von
Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist,
Poet, Historian
I don't want
to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
Bigotry and
intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by
persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days
by the tongue.
-- Charles Simmons
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