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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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