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"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society." »Ruth Nanda Anshen
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"Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker." »William Pitt
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"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." »Plutarch
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"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." »H.L. Mencken
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." »Ogden Nash
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit." »Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time." »Dr. Lillian Troll
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"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood." »Tyron Edwards
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"The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe." »Anonymous
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"'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'" »Arnold Bennett
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"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table." »Gypsy Smith
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"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." »Pearl S. Buck
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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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