Quotes with word-coining

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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Cassidy Gifford Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.
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  • Thomas A. D. Weston Prejudice is just another word for ignorance.
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  • Tommy Lasorda Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Beth Ditto Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • William Cowper Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Abraham Cahan Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Ernest Hemingway Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Caspar Weinberger Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
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  • Joseph Roux Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • James Baldwin Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Ford Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Mann Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bill Gates Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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