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Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
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Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself.
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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