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Words

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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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.

Burroughs, William S.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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.

Twain, Mark

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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?

Havel, Vaclav

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

11.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Renard, Jules

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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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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.

Twain, Mark

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Woolf, Virginia

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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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.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

43.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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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.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel