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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.." -Alfred North Whitehead-
"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.".-Francis Bacon-
"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves a".-Leonard Cohen-
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.".-Norman Vincent Peale
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.".-Aesop-
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand;he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both;but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.".-Francis Bacon-
"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.".-Henry Wheeler Shaw-
"In my mind, there is no, thing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.".-Phillip Chesterfield-
"The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.".-Adlai E. Stevenson-
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"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.".-Blaise Pascal-
"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.".-David Viscott-
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.".-Herm Albright-
"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.".-Anthony Robbins-
"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.".-Kahlil Gibran-
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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.".-Oprah Winfrey-
"Responsibility is the price of greatness.".-Winston Churchill-
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.".-Clarence Darrow-
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory;children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.".-George Santayana-
"My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.".-Michael Jordan-
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminate by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Concealed talent brings no reputation.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.".-Italo Calvino-
"I put all my genius into my life;I put only my talent into my works.".-Oscar Wilde-
"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!".-Camille Paglia-
"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.".-Frantz Fanon-
"War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature;and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"Culture is one thing and varnish is another.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.." -Allan Bloom-
"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.".-Francis Bacon-
"Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.".-Phyllis Mcginley
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"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''".-Ann Landers-
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"A good scare is worth more than good advice.".-Horace-
"In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.".-Phillip Chesterfield-
"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.".-Aldous Huxley-
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"I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.".-Bob Richards-
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.".-Denis Waitley-
"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.".-Lewis Thomas-
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.".-Aristotle-
"Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.".-Leo Tolstoy-
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"No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.".-Phillips Brooks-
"The price of greatness is responsibility.".-Winston Churchill-
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.".-Clarence Darrow-
"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.".-Ogden Nash-
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.".-Bern Williams-
"No one respects a talent that is concealed.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.".-Jules Renard-
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.".-Quentin Crisp-
"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.".-Aleister Crowley-
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"Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.".-Camille Paglia-
"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.".-Freda Adler-
"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.".-Kate Millet-
"Every artist was first an amateur.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.." -Ambrose Bierce-
"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.".-Francis Bacon-
"It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.".-Mark Twain-
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.".-Plutarch
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"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.".-Anne Sophie Swetchine-
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Whatever advice you give, be short.".-Horace-
"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve;we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.".-Pierre Charron-
"Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.".-Allen Ginsberg-
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate;good is always the product of an art.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.".-Denis Waitley-
"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.".-Baltasar Gracian-
"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.".-Les Brown-
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"No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.".-Phillips Brooks-
"He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.".-Confucius-
"I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents;to make him partner in my livelihood;when he is in need of money to share mine with him;to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.".-Hippocrates-
"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.".-Ogden Nash-
"There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not;the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistenc".-Calvin Coolidge-
"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.".-Dustin Hoffman-
"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.".-Konstantin Stanislavisky-
"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.".-Allen Ginsberg-
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"Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.".-Camille Paglia-
"The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.".-Henry Miller-
"Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.".-Leslie Fiedler-
"It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.." -Antoine Rivarol-
"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.".-Mark Twain-
"Speech is the mirror of the soul;as a man speaks, so he is.".-Publilius Syrus
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"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.".-Anne Tyler-
"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.".-Igor Stravinsky-
"It is bad advice that cannot be changed.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.".-Arnold Bennett-
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"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.".-Charles M. Schwab-
"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.".-Vince Lombardi-
"Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness;and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.".-Ben Hecht-
"Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.".-Frank Dane-
"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.".-Les Brown-
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"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs;when he first appears he is a protector.".-Plato-
"I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to b".-Alan Bennett-
"Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.".-Cyril Connolly-
"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.".-Horace-
"Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.".-Vance Havner-
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.".-Francis Herbert Hedge-
"Your talent is God's gift to you;what you do with it is your gift to God.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.".-Angela Carter-
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"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.".-Camille Paglia-
"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.".-Henry van Dyke-
"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.".-Lionel Trilling-
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.".-Roland Barthes-
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