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“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

“Children say that people are sometimes hanged for speaking the truth”. –Joan of Arc

“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”. –Kristen Nygaard

“Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, ‘Why do you not practice what you preach?'”. –Jerome

“Men may be divided into two types: men of words and men of action. The first speaks; the latter act. I am of the second type. I lack the means to express myself adequately”. –Antonio Gaudi

“Years from now, after I’m gone, someone will listen to what I’ve done and know I was here. They may not know, or care, who I was, but they’ll hear my guitars speaking for me”. –Chet Atkins

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees”. –Boris Marshalov