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Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Words
Sidney Madwed

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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Literature
Stephane Mallarme

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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Silence
Marcel Marceau

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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Books - Reading
Anthony Marcel

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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Conversation
Andre Maurois

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Life and Living
Mary Mccarthy

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Silence
Phyllis Mcginley

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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Reputation
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Pain
Toni Morrison

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Kindness
Mother Teresa

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Mighty in deeds and not in words.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Motto

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Silence
Musonnius

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Little words hurt big ideas.
Ideas
Howard W. Newton

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
Love
Joyce Carol Oates

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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Words
Dorothy Parker

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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wit
Dorothy Parker

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Words
Charles H. Parkhurst

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kindness
Blaise Pascal

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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Words
Plutarch

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
Friends and Friendship
John Enoch Powell

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
Kindness
Proverb

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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
Correction
Proverb

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Soft words win hard hearts.
Argument
Proverb

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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Sir Walter Raleigh

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun