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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.


Plato
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
Pankaj Mishra
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.


Aneurin Bevan
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
Saint Ambrose
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For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
Thomas Malory
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I feel that I speak the musical language.


Marsha Norman
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.


Bayard Taylor
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.


Jim Harrison
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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.


A. R. Rahman
Tags: Work Respect You
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French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.


Bernard Pivot
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton
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When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
Bo Burnham
Tags: You Me Think
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
John Clare
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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.


Alan Siegel
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.
Jose Rizal
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.


Richard Pound
Tags: Only Well America
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
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