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• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  Yoko Ono

  Gun, Speaks Out, People

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "Joel Osteen: The Man Behind America's Largest Church". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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• We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

  Joel Osteen

  Home, People, India

  "Joel Osteen: God, Without The Fuss", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.

  Patton Oswalt

  Winning, Hands, Nerd

  "Ratatouille Star Patton Oswalt On Geeks Vs. Nerds" by Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. June 26, 2007.

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• No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivation, Heart, Fighter

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

  Camille Paglia

  Voice, Talking, History

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• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Everything Happens For A Reason, Leave Me Alone

  Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”

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• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Pain, Drama, Joy

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

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• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

  Boris Pasternak

  Simple, Assembly, Grass

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

  Dave Pelzer

  Dave, Mania

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• Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

  William Penn

  Writing, Language Words, Plain Language

  William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.130

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• Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

  Shimon Peres

  Swimming, Years, Israel

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• If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar!

  Katy Perry

  Able, Not Happy, Should

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• Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

  Rick Perry

  Pride, Effort, Moral

  "The Crucial Vote on New York's Same-Sex Marriage; GOP Field Grows Again; Saudi Women Defy Driving Ban". transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sister, Iowa, Twins

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• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  Pablo Picasso

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Peace, Mulling Over

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

  Pink

  Hands, Video, Want

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• Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Two, Degrees, Might

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• Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Action

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• People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

  Martha Plimpton

  Thinking, People, Jerk

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• Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

  John Podhoretz

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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