#words

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

#altered #believe #century #contradicted #educated

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#god #men #sons #things #words

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#affair #another #danish #different #had

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#far #far away #frank #his #i

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. ↗

— Ellen G. White

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