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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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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.


Shel Silverstein
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.


Ferdinand Foch
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A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.


Charles Schwab
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


William Hazlitt
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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.


Rabindranath Tagore
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.


Mark Twain
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
Sean Penn
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
Oriana Fallaci
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To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.


Edwin Markham
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.


Charles Baudelaire
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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