#words

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. ↗

— Cofer Black

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I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush. ↗

— Howard Dean

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. ↗

— John Dewey

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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#come #comes #easy #i #i can

Music is only love looking for words. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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