#words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ↗

— John Adams

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ↗

— Samuel Adams

#meaning #meaning of #pervert #plain #strangely

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#actions #am #defines #had #i

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? ↗

— Aeschylus

#doctors #know #words #you

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ↗

— Aeschylus

#mind #physicians #words

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#convenient #described #distinguish #experience #kinds

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.' ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#fat #i #large #like #plus

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. ↗

— Raymond Floyd

#call #four #golf #letter #other

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#flow #sign #sure #sure sign #words