“Listening to a long speech can seem like reading a book without punctuation. General Eisenhower, while he was president of Columbia University in 1949, found himself following three previous speakers at a dinner. The other all spoke at considerable lenght, and the evening threatened to become morning. Whem Eisenhower was introduced, he said this:
– Every speech written or otherwise has to have punctuation. Tonight I am the punctuation…[pause] the period.”
Iš James C. Humes knygos “Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers”, 2002
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