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All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford

Future, Children, Learned

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori

Men, Learn, Language

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
Desmond Tutu

God, Often, Weak

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn

End, Words, Few

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Doug Coupland

Beautiful, Hard, Try

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton

Truth, Mean, Others

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
Charles R. Swindoll

Society, Nothing, Person

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
Nile Rodgers

Yourself, Judging, Worst

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Human, Destiny

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men, Through, Find

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Words, Able, Excellent

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon

Age, Poetry, Between

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Liberty, Old, Whether

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.
David Bowie

Good, Down, Play

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

Learn, English, Correct

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Life, Thankful, Give

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson

Words, Thoughts, Why

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Struggle, Battle

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Human, Born

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
Paul Ryan

Education, Broken, System

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
Jennifer Aniston

Mother, Father, Friends

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
George Herbert

Mean, Pay, Unless

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Aeschylus

Forget, Willingly

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
Syd Barrett

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Woodrow Wilson

Respect, Past, Disrespect

I can speak Esperanto like a native.
Spike Milligan

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov

Child, Write, Genius

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Depression, Nothing

Writers speak stench.
Franz Kafka

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