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Words

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

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

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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.

Jordan, June

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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.

Twain, Mark

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Idle, Eric

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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.

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

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

Kirchenbaum

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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?

Havel, Vaclav

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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

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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.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins