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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Back Down Excited Get
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Breath Inadequate Like Lover
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So the lover must struggle for words.
Lover Must Struggle Words
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Become Best Best Part Cease
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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Able Being Could Frustration
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

Actual Allow Anything Before
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Artist Cannot Deals Does
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Actions Attachment Convince Criterion
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

End Enemies Friends Our
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Being Essence Innermost Soul
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving

Love Religion Business Family
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Bad Country Like Momma
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Fly Our Where Wings
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Also Beings Deeds Desires
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Attain Deeds Grace Moments
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Answer Asking Many Meaning
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Emotion Found Poetry Thought
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

About Everything Goes I Can
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

About Literary Man Music
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Disadvantages Makes Man Mistake
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Change Change The World Ideas Matter
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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Words are but the signs of ideas.

Ideas Signs Words
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

English English Language Government Help
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Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

About Big Going Half
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Before thy King speaks, thee hath no food; After thy King speaks, thee hath no food and no freedom; The Words of thy King hath brought thee hunger and bondage.

King Freedom Food Hunger
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Because Body Go Just
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

Because Down Edited Entertainment
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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

Constitution Force Oldest Out
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Abstain Lies Philosophy Sustain
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Apostles Believe Believes Course
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There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

Mind There comes a time Determine
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Able Am Angry Become
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All My Life First First Time Life
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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Address American AmericanPeople Difficult
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Dead Guts Living Man
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Feathers Hope Never Sings
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Change Changing Death Life
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Ball Believe Boldly Court
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If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

God Life Presence Hearts
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Disputes Fewer Great Ideas
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There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Human Behaviour Despicable Perfectly.
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Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Etc Expressions Flow Fountain
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Crumbs Down Fall Feast
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Words Unsaid Split Friends
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

Words Deep Hate
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well

Jesus Remember Kingdom Cross
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