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

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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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When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. – John Andrew Holmes

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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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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. – Peter Drucker

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Im bad on Valentines Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine oclock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. Im in ToysRUs all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. – Jamie Foxx

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