words

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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

2.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

- Washington, George

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilest land And on the strangest sea, Yet never in extremity It asked a crumb of me.

- Emily Dickenson

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All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"

- Dave Barry

6.

For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been.”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

7.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

- Morrison, Toni

8.

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

9.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

- Bernstein, Leonard

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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. From the Latin _mens_, a fact unknown to that honest shoe-seller, who, observing that his learned competitor over the way had displayed the motto "_Mens conscia recti_," emblazoned his own front with the words "Men's, women's and children's conscia recti."

- Ambrose Bierce

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

- Woolf, Virginia

12.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

- Miller, Henry

13.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

- Herman Melville

14.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

- Dhammapada

15.

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

- Abba Eban

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Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

- Cialdini, Robert

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts— the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

- John Ruskin

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

- W. Somerset Maugham

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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

- William Arthur Ward