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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Source: Letters and Social Aims, Social Aims, 1876.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.

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