Quotes with word-coining

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  • John F. Kennedy When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity.
    Source: Indianapolis, 12-04-1959
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.
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  • Hermann Goering Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • John Calvin Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Sylvia Plath Widow. The word consumes itself.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Voltaire Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bo Sanchez Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Writer's block is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
    Source: MySpace blog, 09 April 2007
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ben Elton Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard.
    Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word.
    The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!
    Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Caitlin Moran You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Al Capone You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Al Capone You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Bruce McCulloch You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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