Word Quotes
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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
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She wagged a finger at him. “You’re mispronouncing that word.” “Your pardon?” He groped, trying to remember what he’d said. “Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then?” “Suffragette,” she said, “is pronounced with an exclamation point at the end. Like this: ‘Huzzah! Suffragettes!
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I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
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When I hear the word culture, I get out my revolver.
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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.
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Factory farming is terrible for the environment - not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.
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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
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If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
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For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.
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All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
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Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
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The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.
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I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
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The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
