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Speaking Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
- When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
- We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
- Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse in…
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- I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an… — Antonio Banderas
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams
- Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. — Dirk Benedict
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- One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers. — John O. Brennan
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