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Letter "S" » speak up
«Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze»
Author: Gustav Adolfo Becquer
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«He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.»
«We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he mumbled his way to a fortune. [on Clint Eastwood]»
«There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Love
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«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
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«Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.»
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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