- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
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- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
- Nov 07, 2020
Deed, not words shall speak me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020