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“Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.”

Men World Belief Speak Loses Effects Creation Concern Perfection Sight Meaning Of Life Isolation Slips

Author:Leo Szilard

“Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.”

Men Trying Speak Language Forever Men And Women Defeat Compelled

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”

Source: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity

“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”

Mind Said Ends Earth Speak Grows Causes Water Fire Air Grew Equal And Love Height Length One Time Strife Boundless Breadth Declaring Another Time

Author:Empedocles

“I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Trying Firsts Mean Ideas Character Care Speak Language Century Speech Ordinary Critics Everyday 20th Century Delighted Wordsworth

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.”

Persons Speak Player Organization Nfl Contribution Competitors Great Respect

Author:Emmitt Smith

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.”

Speak Easy Truth Is Pleasant Speak The Truth

Book:THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.”

Speak Property Silent Contrary Grants Separating

Book:Manifesto for Philosophy

Source: Manifesto for Philosophy

“Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.”

Ifs Want Stills Shows Asks Speak Sex What You Want Want Something

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.”

Ifs Humans Doe Self Asks Speak Imagination Fire Tongue Glorious Sunset Deprived Transcendence Mundane Intercourse Auras

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.”

Ifs Sometimes Would Be Used Speak Democracy Trouble Students Pressure Constant Caught Reform Loud Ministers Organized Prime Caught Up Prime Minister Demonstration

Author:Jean Chretien

“There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.”

Moving Speak Language Millions Dollars Nervous Million Dollars

Author:Jean Chretien

“I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.”

Men Feels Looks Mean Matter Speak Difficult Streets Crosses Drunk How You Feel Icy Drunk Man

Author:Tucker Carlson

“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”

Giving Should May Said Facts Order Courses Speak Chance Relation Experiments Phrases Hypothesis Experimentation Null

Author:Ronald Fisher

“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

People Writing Has Beens Order Speak Effects Produce Degrees Sentences

Author:Stanley Fish

“Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.”

Philosophy Speak Orientation Assessment Generalities

Book:Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

Source: Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology

“If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.”

Ifs Knows Men Firsts Believe Speak Easy Powerful Leader Missing Organization Who We Are Ingredients Validity Powerful Man

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.”

Ifs Trying Years Book Different Speak Voice Loses Female Years Ago Carols Different Voices Groundbreaking Female Voice

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.”

Sometimes Speak Lines Knowing Cry Emotional Scary Brutal Intuitive Vertical Graphs Fallouts

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.”

People Knows Way Feels Home Speak Expectations Treats South Bones New Yorkers Mannerisms

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“I tend to not speak up as much, so saying no is rather difficult for me. The biggest step of being an adult is saying, "This is what I do like. This is what I don't like." Being yourself means certain people aren't going to like that. I'm still figuring it out and taking things day by day.”

People Mean Stills Certain Speak Difficult Steps Adults Being Yourself Saying No Figuring It

Author:Selena Gomez

“Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.”

Film Winning Speak Answers Novel Easier Battle Cooks Kitchen Boss Solitary Dictator Cooks In The Kitchen

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.”

Art Speak Define You

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.”

Feels Speak Dog Communicate

Author:Bill Nye

“It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.”

Looks Speak Incredibles Favors Bias Eyebrows Pits Exhilarating Biased Notorious Downtrodden Exodus

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.”

People Different Used Speak Cases Gay Orientation Ethnicity Questionable

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"”

Want Trying Wells Persons Said Remember Speak Justice Happened Land Please Treats Aliens Reasonable Palestinian Settlement Diplomatic Where You Come Yahweh Jewish Friends

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”

People Writing Seems Spiritual Speak Growth Issues Week Cry Solutions Illness Wounds Heal Enlightened Spiritual Growth Obesity Work And Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.”

Different Able Speak Language Parent Grew Grew Up Phones Video Embarrassing Deaf Phone Calls Different Languages

Author:Jack Jason

“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.”

“During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Important Real Ends Country Enough Wanted Courses Speak Community Loss Particular Couple Grieving Presidency Comforting Prioritize Devastating Loss

Author:Barack Obama

“We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.”

Believe Country Running Speak Levels Deals Authority Currents Refuse Mandates Ukrainian

Author:Vladimir Putin

Wells Littles I Can School Speak Language Bits Little Bit Tiny Related Latin Italian Alas I Can Read Speaks French

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.”

People Way Feels Long Speak Calling Tradition Feel Good Satire Villain Bricks Speak The Truth

Author:John Cusack

“On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.”

Film Speak Directors Decided

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.”

“There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park.”

People Faces Asks Speak Sides Known Taken Hair Lifetime Profound Inner Peace Parks Colorful Lease Paisley

Author:Prince

“We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out.”

Giving Action Speak President Doubt Military Demand Authority Constitution Congress Iraq No Doubt Fund Justification Troops Speaks Out Military Action Escalation Troops In Iraq

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

People Mind Humans Art Philosophy Speak Known Originals Poetry Is Human Mind Outlets

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.”

“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”

Want Two Country Home Might Night Speak Bits Hours Chance My Own Sleep Setting Settings Get Back Going To Sleep Back Home Mississippi Free Country

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.”

Should Believe Country Home Speak Tolerance Guts Moderates Extremist Speaks Out

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Speak My Own Specifics Tacky

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.”

War Speak Clear Failing Blood Theory Bases Republic September Harvest Woe Emancipation Kindred Devastation Proclamation Subjugation Ripening

Author:Franklin Pierce

“How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?”

Stills Helping Asks Speak Europe Salvation Reformation Destroyers

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.”

Different Found Speak Language Phones Fixed Pushing Buttons Mobile Turkish Mobile Phones Different Languages Coltrane

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.”

Knows Mind Doe Enough Kids Guy Father Speak Enjoy Struggle Growing Up Growing Violence Broken Harder Depth Addiction Bunch Good Enough Broken Family

Author:Marco Rubio

“The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.”

People Shows Happens Speak Born Differences Rich Bias Rich People Elitist

Author:Jerry Springer

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