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Public speech is easily reduced to an exercise in caricature, confected and boring, with the volume set too high. Amid this vast ado about nothing, it is little wonder that a decline in the standard of rhetoric is declared. But it is an illusion, and if public speech is boring the proper response is to be thankful.
When They Go Low, We Go High
Philip Collins
It’s time to write with feeling.
Whether that’s with swagger and attitude.
Or just avoiding platitudes.
Let’s not be wallpaper designers.
Let’s show words some love.
Write to excite
David Stevens
[Studies have shown](http://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/6008.full) auditory memory is typically inferior to visual memory, and while most of us can read for hours, our ability to focus on a speech is more constrained.
A Speech Is Not an Essay
John Coleman
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