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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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"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
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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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"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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"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."
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"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
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"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."
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"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."
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"Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"She's not sensual. She doesn't want affairs. It's just cold-blooded experiment on her part and the fun of stirring people up and setting them against each other. She dabbled in that too. She's the sort of woman who's never had a row with anyone in her life--but rows always happen where she is! She makes them happen. She's kind of female Iago. She must have drama. But she doesn't want to be involved herself. She's always outside pulling strings--looking on--enjoying it!"
Social
"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."
Mortality
"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."
Survival
"For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!"
Philosophy
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
God
"I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action."
Decision
"You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance."
Humility
"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
Attraction
"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"
Death
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
Communication
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