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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers

Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others…
s/he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other
from a million different centers
of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls of resistance.
~ Robert Kennedy

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Boys dancing to the music

"The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious."
Gardner Murphy

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Leo Aikman

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, "Me, too!" versus "So what?"

Jim Rohn

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

-- H. G. Wells

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Leo Aikman

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it - William Feather