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«There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience»
Author: Alexander Gregg
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aim, audience, First to, get into, in public, lastly, public, public speaking, speaking, subject, subjecting
«No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.»
Author: Thomas E. Dewey
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in private, in public, private life, Private Lives, public office
«The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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deceiver, deceivers, deceiving, efficiency, falsehoods, ineradicable, in public, liar, possesses, prevail, primacy
«Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Food,
Sadness
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beggar, contradicts, destitution, disputing, eats, in public, sharing
«They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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demanded, enormity, flagrant, grasped, happening, happenings, interested, in public, notice, sufficiently, The Public Interest, violations
«So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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chastity, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cruel, discretion, display, employ, force of law, in public, loud, obliged, obliges, obliging, privacy, such as
«The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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flirt with, in public, scandalous, washing
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
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aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public»
«To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar»
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