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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech remi

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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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. – Peggy Noonan

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[A]ll great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren’t a little flower somebody sewed on. – Peggy Noonan

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

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

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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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