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• The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

  Helen Vendler

  Art, Play, Characteristics

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• At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have
  any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Tea

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.

  Jay Saunders Redding

  Memories, Names, Tongue

  Jay Saunders Redding (1992). “A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977”, p.44, University Press of Kentucky

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• O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Soul, Mind

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.339, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Trouble, Silent, Trifling

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• Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

  Dan Sperber

  Art, Poetry, Peculiar

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• Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Responsibility, Assumption, Language

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Responsibility, Realization, Action

  "The Ethics of Rhetoric". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric," p. 24, 1953.

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• Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

  Harry Belafonte

  Voice, Finals, Way

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Vision, Madness

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Self, Class

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Giving, Poet

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• If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

  Donald Davidson

  Behaviour, Way, Belief

  "Meaning and Understanding". Book by Herman Parret and ‎Jacques Bouveresse, p. 186, "Radical interpretation", 1981.

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• Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Character, Work Out

  "My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition".

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• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  Wendell Phillips

  Community, Liberty, Doe

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• To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

  Christina Rossetti

  Faith, Teaching, Thinking

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Law, Rights

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ideas, Sticks, Action

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.217, Modern Library

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• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

  J. I. Packer

  Simple, Religion, Statements

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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• A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Worry, Messages, Soothing

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• The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

  A.J. Ayer

  Self, Principles, Use

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 77), 1936.

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• If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religion, Atheism, True Or False

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• Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

  Stanley Forman Reed

  Freedom Of Speech, May, Constitution

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