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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
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"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."

"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."

"I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen."

"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."

"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before."
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"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."


"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."


"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."


"The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best."


"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
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