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«According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Speech
| Keywords:
according, average, better off, casket, caskets, eulogies, eulogy, funeral, number, number one, Number Two, public, public speaking, sound, sound off, speaking, studies, well-off
«All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.»
«Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death»
«To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
aware, a thousand, badly, friction, good practice, oneself, perception, practice, produce, purer, qualities, shortcoming, Somebody else, speaking, unrest, useful, ways, well aware
«All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
declaratory, original, properly, properly speaking, speaking, substance
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
electrified, electrify, electrifying, enchant, enchanted, enchanting, enchantment, enchants, haunting, overwhelmed, speaking, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Most English-speaking people ... will admit that Cellar Door is ?beautiful?, especially if dissociated from its sense and from its spelling»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, cellar, cellars, dissociated, English-speaking, English, English people, especially, speaking, spelling
«And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Almighty, consistent, manner, manner of speaking, speaking, stupidity, the Almighty
«Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
billed, bored, broadly, broadly speaking, classes, divided, speaking, worried
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