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the verbal acts where one person makes silence pay rent for hours
fear factorpublic speaking outranks death in common phobia surveys
shortest everLincoln's Gettysburg Address ran about two minutes
longest filibusterStrom Thurmond spoke 24 hours 18 minutes nonstop
ancient trainingGreeks taught rhetoric as a core civic skill
famous ad-libMLK's 'I Have a Dream' was partly improvised