Word Quotes
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Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
Eugene Shvidler
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'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
Grace Slick
Starship
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Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because it means they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because it means you want to take money from them.
Branko Milanovic
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
Albert Camus
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One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.
William Alcott
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When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and—I don’t know—it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
Pythagoras
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Michael Douglas
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I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.
David Massengill
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
Amy Koppelman
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
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God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.
Albert Mohler
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Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.
Prince
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See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling. And it doesn’t. It’s a shortcut.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.
Charlotte Charke
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At $4 trillion, and roughly only $55 billion in equity, the Fed is leveraged about 77-to-1. They define the word - leverage.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
