Brooks Hays famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
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Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.
-- Brooks Hays
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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