#diction

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. ↗

— James Taylor

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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ↗

— Edward Teller

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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. ↗

— Keith Miller

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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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