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“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”

Feels Writing Home Peace Speech Analogies

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.”

Writing Humans May Stills Lasts Dies Written Heard Mountain Speech Leaving Wave Remembered Sand Fewer Fades Echoes Discourse Permanence Fade Away Tokens Human Thought Tidal Waves

Author:Albert Pike

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.”

Writing Humans Looks Stills Use Problem Realizing Figures Speech Symbols Aliens Human Life Staring Complexity Haunting Uneasy Figures Of Speech Complexity Of Human

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

Needs Writing Book Life Is Study Our Lives Speech Open Book

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.”

People Needs Writing Remember Names Speech

Author:Morgan Freeman