Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
Sam Shepard
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
Eddie Redmayne
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
Rabih Alameddine
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We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
Hal Holbrook
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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
Larry Wall
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Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
Lord Byron
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Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.
Arthur Machen
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
Chuck Palahniuk
