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Words

You can stroke people with words.

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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.

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.

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Renard, Jules

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Rohn, Jim

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

13.

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

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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mohammed

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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Platen

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Phillips, Wendell

32.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Berger, John

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

Fripp, Patricia

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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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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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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