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I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came… — Sharad Pawar
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and… — Osama bin Laden
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza]… — Moshe Dayan
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,… — Alistair Cooke
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the… — Unknown Author
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for… — Oscar Romero
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to… — Thomas Traherne
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. — Euripides
It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings… — Neal A. Maxwell
Speak little, do much. — Benjamin Franklin
The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was… — Abigail Scott Duniway
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement… — Gerard van der Leeuw
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the… — Virginia Henderson
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she… — Victoria Woodhull
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are… — Emile Chartier
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying. — Margaret Chase Smith
They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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