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Robert Burton
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| "A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester
forever." | |
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Jessamyn West
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| "A word after a word after a word is power." | |
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Margaret Atwood
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| "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of
silver." | |
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The Bible
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| "A word is dead, When it is said; Some say. I say It just began to
live that day." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin
of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according
to the circumstances and the time in which it is used." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "A word too much always defeats its purpose." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "And don"t confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words
in osity and ation." | |
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John Hookham Frere
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| "At every word a reputation dies." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Boys flying kites, draw in their white winged birds, But you can?t
do that when you?re flying words. Careful with fire is good advice we
know, But careful with words is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed
my sometimes fall back dead, But God Himself can?t kill them once they?re
said." | |
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Unknown
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| "But words once spoke can never be recall?d." | |
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Wentworth Dillon
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| "Crikey means gee whiz, wow!" | |
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Steve Irwin
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| "Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few." | |
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Pythagoras
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| "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without
words?" | |
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Marcel Marceau
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| "Eating words has never given me indigestion." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "For me words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Their articulation represents a complete, live experience." | |
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Ingrid Bengis
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| "For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul
within." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any
noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering
winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him." | |
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Robert Leighton
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| "Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of
reason." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the
daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "I don"t give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one
way." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of
the speaker." | |
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Plutarch
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| "It is with words as with sunbeams?the more they are condensed, the
deeper they burn." | |
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Robert Southey
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| "It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a
man be behind it or no." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is
not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off
proud; they can"t hear you calling. Look out how you use proud
words." | |
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Carl Sandburg
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| "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes
has to eat them." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by
catchwords." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it
happens that words in return exercise authority on reason." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "O!, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that "s
broken!" | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature
person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests
itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children,
savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what
they have heard." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, all very good words for
the lips,?especially prunes and prism." | |
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Charles Dickens
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| "PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of
thought." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation
of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the
people who must use the words." | |
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Philip K. Dick
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| "There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for
they contain the germ of them all." | |
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Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine
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| "There is one thing that matters ? to set a chime of words tinkling
in the minds of a few fastidious people." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "There was so much handwriting on the wall That even the wall fell
down." | |
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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| "This is very true: for my words are my own and my actions are my
ministers." | |
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Charles II
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| "To be slow in words is a woman"s only virtue." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "True words are not fine, Fine words are not true." | |
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Proverb
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| "We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one
another ? until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as
well as our voices." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "We don"t just *borrow* words; on occasion, English has pursued other
languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
for new vocabulary." | |
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James D. Nicoll
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| "We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only
words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not
for things themselves." | |
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John Locke
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| "When I say beautiful things, I"m not necessarily living them; when I
live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren"t necessary." | |
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Brock Tully
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| "Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in
it?" | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them,
and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on
an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury
and sorrow and and ruin." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations
of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our
adjustment is likely to be." | |
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Bergen Evans
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| "Words are the counters of wise man, and the money of fools." | |
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Thomas Hobbes
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| "Words are the only things that last forever." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "Words are the voice of the heart." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Words are things, and a small drop if ink, Falling like dew upon a
thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more
clear." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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