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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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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. – Evan Esar

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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures dont lie, but admits than under analysis some of them wont stand up either. – Evan Esar

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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasnt done it. – Evan Esar

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His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. – Author Unknown

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldnt bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And Ive ended up with an educated thug. – Sade Adu

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