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«That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone»
Author: Gilbert Burnet
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Sermons
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go away, hastened, hastening, hastens, hearer, hearers, praising, sermon, speaker, talking to, thoughtful
«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
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Culture,
Leadership
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conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through»
«It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.»
Author: Veda Upanishads
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speaker
«Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of»
«In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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Words
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disposition, speaker, Speaker of, state of mind, The State
«QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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chairman, committee, deliberative, deliberative body, House of Representatives, senate, speaker, the House of Representatives, United States Senate
«Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.»
«Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.»
«I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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detest, lecture, lectures, shy, speaker
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