"Good public speaking is based on good private thinking"

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Source : Scott Berkun (2009). “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, p.57, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Scott Berkun

#Thinking Quotes #Public Speaking Quotes

“Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.”

Source : "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.
“I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.”
“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”
“It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.”
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”
“Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.”
“Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make”
“The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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