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Charles Caleb Colton

"Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in."

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"Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in."

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Akiroq Brost

"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."

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Akiroq Brost

"Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside."

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"When i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand."

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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

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Akiroq Brost

"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."

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Akiroq Brost

"My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy."

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"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."

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"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."

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Akiroq Brost

"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."

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"Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all."

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