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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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Karl Kraus

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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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Anatole France

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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Mohammed

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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Alexis De Tocqueville

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Mark Twain

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

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

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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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Henry David Thoreau

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Words
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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Virginia Woolf

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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Gaston Bachelard

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
Words
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Baltasar Gracian

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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Thomas Reid

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
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William Zinsser

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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George Santayana

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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Dan Quayle

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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Abigail Adams

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!
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Kirchenbaum

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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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Earl of Roscommon

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock
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Source Unknown

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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gracie Allen

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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