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  • Joseph Joubert Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler 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.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carol Shields Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Sidney Madwed Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Cyril Connolly 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.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Barry McGee Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Colleen C. Barrett Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
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  • Bailee Madison Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Caskie Stinnett Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • John F. Kennedy World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Will Rogers Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Walter Bagehot Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Bagehot Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • George Orwell Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bette Midler Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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