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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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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. – Peggy Noonan

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War
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Dont go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else. – Peggy Noonan

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. – Evan Esar

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

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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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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Gray hair is a blessing — ask any bald man. – Author Unknown

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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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