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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Author: Abigail Adams
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Im memoriam A.H.H.,’ 1850
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W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like ‘epixoriambikos.’ Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of ‘the glory that was Greece’ and the rise of ‘the grandeur that was Rome.’ There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it ‘wow,’ for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Author: Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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I like the word ‘indolence.’ It makes my laziness seem classy.
Author: Bern Williams
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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
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The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket.
Author: Erik Kowal, as posted on wordwizard.com
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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.
Author: From a Washington Post reader submission word contest
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Author: G.K. Chesterton
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Author: George Orwell
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Author: George Orwell
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Our language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.
Author: J. Gustav White
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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.
Author: John Locke
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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
Author: Julia Penelope
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The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Author: Lewis Thomas
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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don’t tell you what to say.
Author: Mark Twain
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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Author: Marshall Lumsden
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