#speech

Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

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I’m not the bearer of absolute truths. No fundamental inspiration has flashed across my mind. I honestly think, however, it’

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The priests of the temple of Zeus at Dodona say that the first prophecies were the words of an oak. Everyone who lived at

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Speech Of The Machine

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it

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If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by

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I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work. For me words are tangible bodies, visible sirens, sensualities

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We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that

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I prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.

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Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.

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