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Words

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

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You can stroke people with words.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Silesius, Angelus

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Card, Orson Scott

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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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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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

Cather, Willa

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stalin, Joseph

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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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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wright, Steven

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Butler, Samuel

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

Yeats, William Butler