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

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

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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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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. – Archibald Philip Primrose

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. – Peggy Noonan

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