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If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom… — Jimmy Wales
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. — Sophocles
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. — John Yoo
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a… — Pope Francis
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from… — Pope Benedict XVI
Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. — Sathya Sai Baba
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. — Ilya Ehrenburg
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror… — Vasily Grossman
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say? — John Hagee
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… — Fredrik Bajer
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just… — John Henry Newman
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And as for fiscal… — Penn Jillette
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a… — Jerome Rothenberg
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression… — Albert Camus
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky
Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again.… — Dick Clark
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand de Saussure

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