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wandering5tar
54 / male
London, England, UK
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Election Season Is Almost Here
I live on a different continent and I'm already bored with the coverage, speeches etc., so here are a few words of advice for the great & the good.
Writing
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. The Lord's prayer has only 67. The story of creation in the Bible uses only 200 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 271 words. On the other hand, a recent Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
(David Belasco (1853-1931) American playwright and producer)
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
(Proverbs 17:27)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
(Voltaire (1694-1778), French satirist, philosopher and writer)
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and philosopher)
Brevity is the soul of wit.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist and poet)
Speeches/Presentations
Yes, about ten minutes.
Duke Wellington, responding to a vicar's query as to whether there was anything he would like his sermon to be about
A speech should be so short that when it's over you can still remember the beginning.
Former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey was once admonished by his wife, Muriel, "Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal."
Theodore Roosevelt was asked how long it took him to prepare one of his speeches. He replied it depended on the length of the speech required; for a half-an-hour speech, two to three days, for five minutes, a week and if he had to speak for two hours then he could begin immediately.
No speech can be entirely bad if it is short enough.
Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944), American journalist, humorist and writer.
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| August 16, 2008, 04:52 |
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Re: Election Season Is Almost Here
Some of those are quite interesting and funny, thx w5s! 
 ... xox
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| August 19, 2008, 00:50 |
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