"A word after a word after a word is power."

Atwood, Margaret on power
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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on words
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."

Conrad, Joseph on words
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."

Horace on words   

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

Thorndike, Edward on words
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"Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places."

Swift, Jonathan on writers and writing   

"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."

Confucius on words
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"The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains."

Proverb on letters   

"Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates."

Mann, Thomas on speech   

"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."

Swift, Jonathan on style
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"Words are all we have."

Beckett, Samuel on words   

"By words the mind is winged."

Aristophanes on words
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"Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all."

Churchill, Winston on vocabulary
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

Twain, Mark on words
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"It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets   

"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."

Twain, Mark on words
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"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."

Barthes, Roland on language
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"In the word of no master am I bound to believe."

Horace on independence
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"The word of man is the most durable of all material."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on language   

"In love there are two things -- bodies and words."

Oates, Joyce Carol on love   

"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."

Cato The Elder on speakers and speaking   

"Carve every word before you let it fall."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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