#word

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. ↗

— Sophocles

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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. ↗

— Terry Southern

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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ↗

— Robert Southey

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It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

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The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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