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• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drawing, Justice, Ruth

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• The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.

  J. James Exon

  Thinking, Years, Freedom Of Speech

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• George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Southern, President

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• Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Growing Up, Believe

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• This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Support, Getting Older

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• During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sunday, President, Crowds

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

  George Pataki

  War, Fighting, Freedom Of Speech

  "Lenny Bruce Posthumously Pardoned" by wenn.com, December 24, 2003.

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• I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Nice, Cutting, Say Anything

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• Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Atheism, President, Modern

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• Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

  Miroslav Volf

  Freedom Of Speech, Doe, Fundamentals

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.

  Ava DuVernay

  Dream, Kings, Holiday

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.

  Bobby Jindal

  Tired, Race, African American

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Men, Library

  "Exploiting the Gender Gap". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

  George Orwell

  Use, Metaphor, Figures

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

  Emily Robison

  Fall, Believe, People

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• The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

  Confucius

  Men, Sincerity, Sincere

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• There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.206

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• The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talking, Ideas

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• For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Saws, Illness

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• You drown him by your talk.

  Plautus

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• Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Talking, Tongue, Fool

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• Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Brother, Men, Reason

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.80

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• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Littles, Too Much, Repent

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