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• Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Thinking, News, Television

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

  Mark Thomas

  Freedom Of Speech, Free Speech, Cornerstones

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• It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

  Josephine Tey

  Use, Jargon, Language

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.

  Jenny Diski

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

  Owen Feltham

  Memories, Men, Understanding

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.50

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• Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

  Genevieve Taggard

  Giving, Joy, Singing

  Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”

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• Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

  Jackson Pearce

  Mean, Judgement, Freedom Of Speech

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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• All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Made, Better Future

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Men, Doors, Dumb

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• Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

  Arthur Quinn

  House, Ordinary, Language

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• Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Sex, Children, Writing

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• When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

  Frances Osborne

  Honesty, Eye, Guilt

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• I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

  Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

  Effort, Freedom Of Speech, Process

  Speech at the University of Oregon, 2004.

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Communication, Numbers, United States

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

  Jennifer Stone

  Feelings, Use

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• Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Years, Gone, Swamps

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• What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Buckets, Come Up

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• The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

  Russell Brand

  Together, Important, Humans

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• America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

  Eric Stonestreet

  America, Able, Facts

  "Golden Globes 2012: 'Modern Family' Stars Criticize Anti-Gay Protesters, Defend Show" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2012.

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• In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
  [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

  Horace

  Obscure, Concise

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• What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Character, Public Opinion

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• More have repented speech then silence.
  [More have repented speech than silence.]

  George Herbert

  Silence

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