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• To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

  Ernest Istook

  Writing, People, Doe

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• I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

  LeBron James

  Games, Matter, Needs

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• When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Names, Together

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1620, Delphi Classics

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• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Writing, Parent, Different

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• We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Speaks Out, World, Arab World

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• I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

  Penn Jillette

  Libertarian, Democrat, Sean

  Penn Jillette (2011). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . but there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.

  Barry Lyga

  Order, Ideas, Supposed To Be

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Voice, Effort, Feelings

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• It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

  Sargent Shriver

  Jobs, Catholic, Speak The Truth

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• My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

  Beverly Sills

  Brother, Men, Desire

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• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  Sara Gruen

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

  Simon Sinek

  Exercise, Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Care

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• Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

  Wilbur Smith

  Thinking, Speak Your Mind, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

  Will Smith

  Children, Men, Views

  "Will Smith on Playing Muhammed Ali". abcnews.go.com. December 13.

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• You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

  Hope Solo

  People, Disrespect, Shows

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• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Running, Office, Floating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Grace, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.117

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• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

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• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

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• Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

  Jasper Fforde

  Children, Mind, Adults

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

  Eliot Spitzer

  Public Speaking, Streets, Speaking In Public

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• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Law

  Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.7

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• It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

  Lysander Spooner

  People, United States, Doe

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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