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• It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. (William Morris) [words/experience/words/experience]
• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. (Benjamin Franklin) [growth/civilization & progress/words]
• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. (Vladimir Nabokov) [feeling/words/being]
• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost) [poetry/words]
• . . . early morning does not mince words . . . (John Galsworthy) [morning/words]
• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Herbert Hoover) [words]
• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln) [words/]
• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Henry James) [words/english/language]
• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. (Winston Churchill) [evil/words/stomach]
• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. (Sarah Bernhardt) [words/food/wine]
• Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. (Thomas Gray) [poetry/thoughts/words]
• I wrote a thousand words every day. (Jack London) [words/day]
• Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. ( Socrates) [think/words]
• Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. (Theodore Dreiser) [words/feelings]
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (John Adams) [abuse/words/society]
• I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. (Joseph Addison) [epitaph/words]
• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. (Joseph Addison) [love/desire/words]
• Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. () [words/acts]
• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. (Hannah Arendt) [words]
• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. (Antonin Artaud) [thing/words/light/darkness]
• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. (Wystan Auden) [words]
• Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. (James Baldwin) [words//democracy/people]
• Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. (Roland Barthes) [language/language/words/words]
• Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. (Jean Baudrillard) [science/omnipotence/words/process]
• All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry Ward Beecher) [words/]
• Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. (Leonard Bernstein) [words]
• These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. (Claude M. Bristol) [words/mind]
• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. (Samuel Butler) [words]
• Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words (Eileen Caddy) [thoughts/words]
• Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. (Italo Calvino) [words/silence/words]
• Silence is more eloquent than words. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/more/words]

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