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"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
-Voltaire
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"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
-Nikki Giovanni
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it."
-Storm Jameson
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"Little words hurt big ideas."
-Howard W. Newton
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
-William Shakespeare
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"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
-Horace Mann
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
-Hermann Hesse
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"What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?"
-Richard J. Daley
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"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."
-Thomas Shadwell
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"The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies."
-Pauline Kael
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"Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience."
-Julian Sorrell Huxley
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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
-John Mccain
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"I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl."
-Alicia Silverstone
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"The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind."
-Hortense Calisher
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"To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time."
-Dr. Smiley Blanton
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"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."
-Lech Walesa
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"When deeds speak, words are nothing."
-Pierre joseph Proudhon
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"I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising."
-Yasmine Bleeth
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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
-Paul Simon
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"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education."
-Antisthenes
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
-Sir Joshua Reynolds
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"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality."
-Harold S. Geneen
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"A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up."
-Warren Spahn
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"Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass."
-Sir John Vanbrugh
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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
-Alexis De Tocqueville
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