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Malala Yousafzai

Activist for Female Education

Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
Speaking - Willing
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Napoleon

Military and Political Leader, Emperor of the French

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
People - Speaking
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Russell Brand

Comedian, Actor, Radio Host, Author, Activist

I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.
Qualification - Speaking
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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Creativity - Eloquence - Kindness - Objectification - Speaking
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Lance Armstrong

Professional Road Racing Cyclist

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.
Difficulty - End - Finding - Mindset - Plan - Speaking
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Virginia Woolf

Writer

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
Human - Loss - Professionals - Sharing - Speaking - Success - Wellness
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P. J. O'Rourke

Political Satirist, Journalist

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
Ignorance - Linguistics - Speaking - Wellness
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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Anger - Speaking - Wants
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Seamus Heaney

Poet, Playwright, Translator

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
Hiding - Points - Speaking
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Michael J. Fox

Actor, Comedian, Producer, Author

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.
Accept - Expectation - Speaking
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George W. Bush

Former President of the United States

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
Change - Giving - Making - Reading - Speaking
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
Speaking
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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
Actions - Attacking - Publishing - Speaking - Thoughts - Writing
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
Actions - Enterprising - Loss - Speaking
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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Linguistics - Man - Meaning - Praying - Speaking
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

To take arms against a sea of troubles.
Death - Opposition - Speaking
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Hermann Hesse

Poet, Novelist, Painter

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
Certainty - Man - Speaking
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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.
Earnest - Interpretation - Making - Man - Speaking
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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
Affairs - Man - Speaking - Talk - Thinking
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Miguel de Cervantes

Writer

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Meaning - Speaking
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.
Human - Linguistics - Oneself - Speaking - Trial
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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
Earth - Heavens - Sea - Speaking - Universe - World
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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.
Actions - Conditioning - Deal - Objectivity - Politics - Speaking
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Joan of Arc

Martyr

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
Speaking
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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes
Speaking
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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Writer

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.
Crying - Emptiness - Speaking
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.
Belief - Speaking - Teaching
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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
Marriage - Speaking
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Napoleon

Military and Political Leader, Emperor of the French

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
Charm - Children - Father - Glory - Illusion - Speaking
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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.
Democracy - Judging - Phase - Principle - Progression - Speaking - Wellness
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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Adventure - Linguistics - Man - Speaking - Student - Studying - Wellness - Writing
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