#words

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

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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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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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A picture is worth a thousand words. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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