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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
Ann Coulter
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius 
83% of people like this quote
I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
Ann Coulter
81% of people like this quote
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
79% of people like this quote
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
75% of people like this quote
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
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I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
Mark Lloyd
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