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Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

从别人的演讲里面整段整段地引用，绝不是可以信任的所谓改变，而是是可以复印的所谓改变。

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Preparation is key. Not just for speeches or meetings, but for anything worthwhile in life.

所以，准备是关键的，不仅在演讲或会议里如此，在生活的任一有价值的事情上也是一样。

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Whig leaders would not let their candidate make many speeches.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."

但另一方面“他继续说，“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活，你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“

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"President Obama has been all over the Middle East, he's been in Turkey, he's been in Saudi Arabia, he's been in Cairo, and giving major speeches, and he has not spoken to or with the Israeli people or really sort of extended his hand as a partner in this entire process,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

But the problem with great speeches of the kind Obama delivered then is that they contain promises, and if those promises are not kept future speeches not only ring hollow, they are reminders of what has not been fulfilled.

CNN: Obama on world stage: More hope than change?

It's not about speeches for me, it's not about the bright lights and the cameras.

NPR: Democrats Warm Up Wisconsin for Next Contest

They do this not through speeches but through daily interaction, meeting with people one and one or in small groups listening and learning and when asked to speak talking about what the team can achieve.

FORBES: Three Cheers for Optimism