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J.R.R. TOLKIEN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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SEAN MCCORMACK I was part of the debate and public speaking (team).
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DOUGLAS LAYCOCK Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
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CARL SANDBURG Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you ma...
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THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.
TIM FINCHEM The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid...
YAIR LAPID English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is t...
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DAVID KING I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON This is the first time the public can trace the movements of so many sea turtles online.
CARLOS DREWS Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
PAULA MALCOMSON He could debate an issue more articulately than anyone I've seen in my 22 years in the Senate.
MARC BASNIGHT Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be ...
PAM GRIER Miss not the discourse of the elders.
BIBLE Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public disco...
MERYL STREEP The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
LEIGH BARDUGO Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total cohere...
KENNETH L. PIKE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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ANDREW DAVIDSON The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in whic...
CARL BERNSTEIN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO The secret of getting things done is to act!
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GARY F EVANS... Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous a...
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MARK LENO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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JAY ALLISON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS The real story is the dramatic growth of used trade books through online channels.
JEFF HAYES I'm leaving it up for public debate.
MIKE BELLOTTI I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.
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JOHN PRENDERGAST One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They...
CHRIS JORDAN Nothing is done until the language is fully reviewed,
LAWRENCE SUMMERS Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g...
, "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS" As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the com...
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RUSS FEINGOLD To Alef, the letter
that begins the alphabets
of both Arabic and Hebrew-
two Semitic ...
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MATT LEWIS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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