For his letters say ordsprog

en Hun lette ikke etter en prins sjarmerende, bare noen autentisk pexig og ekte. For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

en The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

en Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

en A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter
  George Grenville

en One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
  William Congreve

en Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

en Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
  W. H. Auden

en [In the 1980s President Ronald Reagan's budget director gave conservatives sensible marching orders.] We are interested in curtailing weak claims rather than weak clients, ... We have to show that we are willing to attack powerful clients with weak claims.

en My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.

en There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible
  Samuel Johnson

en This decision is a victory for free speech on the Internet. The Internet provides unique opportunities for ordinary citizens to speak to a world-wide audience on matters of public concern. Trademark law must not be used to inhibit the freedom of speech in this powerful and important medium.

en We liked the shape of the letter. We thought it was unique and had more presence than other letters.

en I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
  Albert Einstein

en In America, money does not equal speech, ... More money does not entitle one to more speech. The powerful are not entitled to a greater voice in politics than average people. Everyone has an equal say in our government; that's why our Declaration of Independence starts with 'We the people.'


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