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Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Nikki Giovanni
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Storm Jameson
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Little words hurt big ideas. -Howard W. Newton
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Horace Mann
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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works. -Tiger Woods
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Hermann Hesse
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What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Richard J. Daley
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The words 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. -Pauline Kael
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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell
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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Julian Sorrell Huxley
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When deeds speak, words are nothing. -Pierre-joseph Proudhon
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Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

John Mccain
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Voltaire
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I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl. -Alicia Silverstone
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

Hortense Calisher
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Paul Simon
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To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time. -Dr. Smiley Blanton
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Dennis Potter
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Lech Walesa
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I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising. -Yasmine Bleeth
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Antisthenes
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Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. -Sir John Vanbrugh
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Warren Spahn
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A gentle word opens an iron gate. -Bulgarian Proverb
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin
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Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Herbert Kaufman
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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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