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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
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"From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself."
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"An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics] so let's just think of this as empty."
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"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."
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"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements."
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"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."
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"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"
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"There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right."
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"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
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"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."
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"Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
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