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«If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.»
«Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.»
Author: Charles Simic
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Speech
| Keywords:
constructing, lighthouse, lighthouses, ships, The Lighthouse
«It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Dictators,
Paradox,
Power,
Speech
| Keywords:
attaining, climbed, dictator, free speech, ladder, paradox, suppressed
«Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
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Inventions,
Speech
| Keywords:
deposited, strictly, strictly speaking
«It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.»
«In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Punishment,
Speech
| Keywords:
free speech, penalty, poems
«It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.»
«It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Listening,
Speech,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
privilege, province, Provinces of, Province of, The Province
«In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
indefensible, In Our Time, largely
«It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent»
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