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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 29,032 ratings — published 2015
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 28,295 ratings — published 2019
Make Good Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 9,831 ratings — published 2013
The Gettysburg Address (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 7,764 ratings — published 1863
Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,772 ratings — published 2013
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 40,517 ratings — published 2009
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 359 ratings — published 1993
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as speeches)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,571 ratings — published 2017
I Have a Dream (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 3,769 ratings — published 1973
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (MP3 CD)
by (shelved 13 times as speeches)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,006 ratings — published 2013
Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 746 ratings — published 1967
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (ebook)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,296 ratings — published 1775
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 341,370 ratings — published 2012
Speeches That Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,772 ratings — published 2005
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 6,373 ratings — published 1965
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as speeches)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,606 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,640 ratings — published 1984
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 368,771 ratings — published 2008
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 525 ratings — published 1992
Selected Political Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,729 ratings — published -84
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 4,346 ratings — published 2019
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 513 ratings — published 1941
Speeches and Writings 1832–1858 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,511 ratings — published 1968
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,044 ratings — published 1971
Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 261 ratings — published 2020
Navigate Your Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,705 ratings — published 2020
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,638 ratings — published 2017
Emancipation Proclamation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.44 — 777 ratings — published 1863
Strenuous Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,378 ratings — published 1899
Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 332 ratings — published 1865
Speeches and Writings 1859–1865 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 739 ratings — published 1989
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 2,476 ratings — published 1986
Steve Jobs Graduation Speech (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as speeches)
avg rating 4.60 — 229 ratings — published 2005
I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 864 ratings — published
A Message from Ukraine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 1,806 ratings — published 2022
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 590 ratings — published 1971
Great Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)
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avg rating 3.95 — 58 ratings — published 199
Make Trouble (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,665 ratings — published 2017
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.27 — 177 ratings — published 1865
John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America)
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avg rating 4.48 — 258 ratings — published 1961
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 1,205 ratings — published 1969
Yo no vengo a decir un discurso (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,207 ratings — published 2010
George Washington's Farewell Address (Books of American Wisdom)
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avg rating 4.48 — 731 ratings — published 1913
Selected Speeches and Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 340 ratings — published 1992
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 156 ratings — published 1996
Areopagitica (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,691 ratings — published 1644
Speeches that Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.29 — 21 ratings — published 2006
Selected Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 75 ratings — published -322
Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.90 — 52 ratings — published
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,052 ratings — published 2018
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession which encourages them to stay at their desks for years, if necessary, pondering what to say next and how best to say it. Interviewers propose to speed up this process
by trepaning writers, so to speak, and fishing around in their brains for unused ideas which otherwise might never get out of there. Not a single idea has ever been discovered by means of this brutal method--and still the trepaning of authors goes on every day.
I now refuse all those who wish to take the top off my skull yet again. The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
by trepaning writers, so to speak, and fishing around in their brains for unused ideas which otherwise might never get out of there. Not a single idea has ever been discovered by means of this brutal method--and still the trepaning of authors goes on every day.
I now refuse all those who wish to take the top off my skull yet again. The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff. Seriously, sorority girls have done the Walk of Shame home from frat parties feeling more satisfied.”
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