#orator

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#hard #ideas #letting #lyrical #melodies

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire. ↗

— John Edward

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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#found #laboratory #lots #never #practice

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#going #how #movie #really #someone

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #commitment #continue #international #international space station

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions