#word

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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The oil can is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#oil #sword #than

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. ↗

— Willie Dixon

#expressed #facts #feeling #inspiration #life

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. ↗

— William Safire

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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. ↗

— James Schuyler

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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. ↗

— Sebastian Franck

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I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#drawing #found #in my opinion #never #opinion

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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