Best literary speeches according to redditors

> The fact that the Daily Mail's story proved to be defamatory is irrelevant

This is liberals folks. The court of law is a fucking joke to them. No wonder they can't figure anything out. They're so based in the "feels" world that real stats, real laws, and real ANYTHING is a fucking scary insurmountable obstacle to them.

Any idea how many books Obama and Michelle slung while in office, shit for brains?

Any idea how they managed to grow their net worth to the tune of MILLIONS while in office ?!


https://www.amazon.com/American-Grown-Kitchen-Gardens-America/dp/0307956024

https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Obama-Speeches-American-Values/dp/0982375638

https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Obama-her-Own-Words/dp/1586487620

Eat a fucking cock dude. You got grifted by the First Man.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/01/20/how-barack-obama-has-made-20-million-since-arriving-in-washington/#125be4e45bf0

Meanwhile the Trumps are dumping everything they got into the US and little trolls like you who couldn't pay taxes if your life depended on it are literally mocking immigrants with your greasy racist hands all a twitter.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/17/news/trump-billionaires-forbes-richest-americans/index.html

The brain's ability to use its lexicon and the associated semantic information as well as the syntactic rules associated with language and the pragmatic 'rules' of speech to formulate a statement, question, response etc. at speed is phenomenal. I'm currently studying to become a Speech and Language Therapist in the UK and it's astounding how complex the whole system of expressive and receptive communication is.

It may be worth looking at 'The Speech Chain' by Peter Denes. Although the book focusses on the physiology of speech production (initiation, phonation, articulation, motor execution, auditory reception and so on), the concept of the 'pre-linguistic phase' is discussed.

Here's a link https://www.amazon.com/One-Too-Small-Make-Difference/dp/0141991747/

As a high school student, you thought his story sounded fishy. You wondered about this presumably for years without finding a satisfactory answer. And you try to fulfill your yearning for knowledge with this post. To save you the trouble of further wondering---He did a lot of public lectures without notes, live, with question and answer, copiously documented by the media of the day in both the US and Europe. If he had a writer, then he just has to go down in history as a great actor (or the surreptitious inventor of the telepromptor or wireless earpiece)--not sure how else he would have done so many interviews and debates from remarks from a white man that were prepared in advance. Perhaps you should read some of these http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Papers-Interviews-1847-1854/dp/0300026617

Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.” Extinction Rebellion said “Billions will die” and “Life on Earth is dying.” Vice claimed the “collapse of civilization may have already begun.” 

Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The latter said, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.” Says Thunberg in her new book, “Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.” 

Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” if Earth warms four degrees, said one earlier this year. “The potential for multi-breadbasket failure is increasing,” said another. If sea levels rise as much as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts, another scientist said, “It will be an unmanageable problem.” 

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Apocalyptic statements like these have real-world impacts. In September, a group of British psychologists said children are increasingly suffering from anxiety from the frightening discourse around climate change. In October, an activist with Extinction Rebellion (”XR”) — an environmental group founded in 2018 to commit civil disobedience to draw awareness to the threat its founders and supporters say climate change poses to human existence — and a videographer, were kicked and beaten in a London Tube station by angry commuters. And last week, an XR co-founder said a genocide like the Holocaust was “happening again, on a far greater scale, and in plain sight” from climate change.

Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing. I have been politically active on the issue for over 20 years and have researched and written about it for 17 years. Over the last four years, my organization, Environmental Progress, has worked with some of the world’s leading climate scientists to prevent carbon emissions from rising. So far, we’ve helped prevent emissions increasing the equivalent of adding 24 million cars to the road. 

> Does anyone know where I can read a transcription of this speech? I'm deaf and can't hear this video version.

You can read all of Greta’s speeches to date in the book

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141991747/

All proceeds from its sale are given to environmental and other worthy charities.

These are my personal favourites for introductory books on ODEs - [Simmons & Krantz's Differential equations: theory, techniques and practice](https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Equations-Steven-Krantz-Simmons/dp/0070616094) is a great book with examples from physics and engineering along with lots of historic notes.

[Braun's differential equations and their applications](https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Equations-Their-Applications-Introduction/dp/0387978941/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=35EOUTZZ32HDA&keywords=braun+differential+equations&qid=1556968795&s=books&sprefix=braun+Differenz%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C215&sr=1-1) is another applications oriented differential equations book that is a bit more involved than Simmon's but has a much broader perspective with introductions to bifurcation theory and applications in mathematical biology.

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If you're not planning to do research in ODE theory, but want to learn the basic theory more rigorously, then [Hurewicz's Lectures](https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Ordinary-Differential-Equations-Hurewicz/dp/1258814889/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=341Z3D48AUTBU&keywords=hurewicz+differential&qid=1556969136&s=gateway&sprefix=hurewicz+%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C216&sr=8-1) is a perfect short book that covers the basic theorems for existence and uniqueness of solutions of ODEs.

Polio: an American story
http://www.amazon.com/Polio-American-David-M-Oshinsky/dp/0195307143


The emperor of all maladies
http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/1439170916

To repair the world

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0520275977/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1459122802&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=public+health&dpPl=1&dpID=416EuTeXlNL&ref=plSrch

I particularly enjoyed her views on life: http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Speaks-Lectures-Seminars-Interviews/dp/0804006946

Don't: A Manual Of Mistakes And Improprieties More Or Less Prevalent In Conduct And Speech

A fine reference for gentlemanly etiquette that is still useful today, though the modern gentleman may find some of the guidelines a bit out of date.

https://www.amazon.com/Farnsworths-Classical-English-Metaphor-Farnsworth/dp/1567925480

He's also written a book classical rethoric and another on metaphors.