"That taught me a lesson: Think before you speak, " he said as he knocked on wood.

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Think before you speak.

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The problem is that before you can speak from experience you may have to max out your credit card.

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You audience expects you to do your homework before you get up to speak.

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Just before I came to speak to all of you today, I visited two expos right in another courtyard here that underscore the kind of progress we can make together.

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At the very least you need to speak about this with each other well before getting married.

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It's a sociological signifier, a shorthand that often tells you who you're dealing with and what they're all about before they can even speak.

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Now, I'm not going to speak long, mainly because I've been speaking a lot and you all have heard me before.

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So before I turn it over to the Taoiseach, let me leave you with all the words from those early days that speak to why this has been such an incredible relationship between our two countries.

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