#words

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ↗

— Epictetus

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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberation #oneself #words

Words are illusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#little-girl #swear-words #art

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ↗

— George Eliot

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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. ↗

— Black Elk

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