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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad
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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
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A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
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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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beecher
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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
Mark Twain
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.
June Jordan
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
T. S. Eliot
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Willa Cather
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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
Gaston Bachelard
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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Mark Twain
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.
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It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
William S. Burroughs
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Wendell Phillips
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.
Theodore Roosevelt
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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
Ernest Hemingway
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Strong words are required for weak principles.
Doug Horton
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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Mark Twain
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
Anatole France
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Dorothy Parker
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia Woolf
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
Václav Havel
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
John Berger
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Laozi
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Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle
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We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke
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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock
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When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
Lewis Carroll
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
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Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard
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Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sidney Madwed
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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Cyril Connolly
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
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You can stroke people with words.
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
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