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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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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasnt done it. – 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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Be sincere; be brief; be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, 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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