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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to..."
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dr. Seuss quote: "I speak for the trees!"
I speak for the trees! Dr. Seuss
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor? at least no one worth speaking of. Douglas Adams
Tom Robbins quote: "People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots."
People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots. Tom Robbins
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. Blaise Pascal
But they left their treasure, gold and more gold. Some of it is found- but the finders never tell, because you see they’d only get one-third then: that’s the law of treasure. They want it all, so never speak of it. Jean Rhys
C. S. Lewis quote: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,..."
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C. S. Lewis
But are there philosophical problems? The present position of English philosophy - my point of departure - originates, I believe, in the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein's doctrine that there are none; that all genuine problems are scientific problems; that the alleged propositions or theories of philosophy are pseudo-propositions or pseudo-theories; that they are not false (if they were false, their negations would be true propositions or theories) but strictly meaningless combinations of... Karl Popper
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself? Anne Bronte
...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far. Peter S. Beagle
As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well. Willa Cather
Spalding Gray quote: "And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my..."
And in this role (the Stage Manager) I could speak from my heart, you know!....provided I can memorize the lines. Spalding Gray
Words were no longer simply words, but a curious codes of silence, a way of speaking that continually moved around the thing that was being said. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell would not broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the character. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to. Thus my courtship of Sophie began - slowly, decorously, building by the... Paul Auster
Arthur Miller quote: "I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue..."
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. Arthur Miller
Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated. Stephenie Meyer

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