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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a tw

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. – Evan Esar

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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. – Evan Esar

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. – Evan Esar

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Be sincere; be brief; be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking

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Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. – Dale Carnegie

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