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“Hubert Humphrey’s wife is said to have advised him: “Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.”
― On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech with Style, Substance, and Clarity
― On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech with Style, Substance, and Clarity
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
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“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
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“How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:”
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That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:”
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“These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.”
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