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• "Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves."
  By: Joseph Addison
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• "Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all."
  By: Henry Brooks Adams
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• "It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return."
  By: Abd-el-Kader (Kadir)
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• "The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting."
  By: Unattributed Author, The Husia of Ancient Egypt, translation by Maulana Kaurenga
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• "He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods."
  By: Unattributed Author, Egyptian Book of the Dead
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• "That blessed word Mesopotamia."
  By: Unattributed Author, see Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
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• "Everybody knows that it is much harder to turn word into deed than deed into word."
  By: Maxim Gorky
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• "You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken--unspeakable!--fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse--a little tiny mouse!--of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
  By: ^ Winston Churchill
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• "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
  By: ^ Truman Capote
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• "The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid."
  By: ^ Siddha Nagarjuna
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• "Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."
  By: ^ Samuel Butler
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• "If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
  By: ^ Robert Southey
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• "Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
  By: ^ Robert E. Lee
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• "A unification of fact and value is an excellent definition, it seems to me, of any given word in any given language. So words bloom into novels ... and the large problem grows out of the small: to assemble words so they work together with something approaching the same force of unified fact and value that each word has accrued in its long, accumulating passage through history. Words are the model, words are the tools, words are the boards, words are the nails."
  By: ^ Richard Rhodes How to Write
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• "It's always a bit of a struggle to get the words right, whether we're a Hemingway or a few fathoms below his level."
  By: ^ Rene J. Cappon Associated Press Guide to News Writing
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• "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
  By: ^ Nelson Mandela
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