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BETHANY HAMILTON They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and l...
PIET HEIN Don't just read to read. Read to understand.
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KELLY JONES The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and ...
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LEBOGANG MARUMO Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
SOULJA BOY The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain / And simple to express: / Err / and err / and err again, / b...
PIET HEIN Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You...
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MOHSIN ATTIQUE Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. W...
VASHTI QUIROZ-VEGA Everybody's playing well. We will try the changes out again next week and see how they work then.
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DEAN FLORIO LAW 4
Always Say Less Than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with wo...
ROBERT GREENE They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is...
TERRY PRATCHETT To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory...
AGNES DE MILLE To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glor...
AGNES DE MILLE I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are...
MITCH ALBOM power of words are more powerful then anything in the world, use them wisely and be surprised at the...
MIKE GRIST One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
VOLTAIRE One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
VOLTAIRE Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
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JOHN M SHEEHAN Lead by example so fiercely that your conviction is impossible to question.
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YAMIN RASHEED Your sword is made out of your grandmother’s bones?”
“Okay, I see how it sounds weird whe...
ILONA ANDREWS A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a t...
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JEAN PAULHAN You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even ...
ETHAN CANIN How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
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VICTORIA AVEYARD I don't think they are as active as much as the larger gangs. It's a hang out thing more or less. Bu...
FRED HUDSON If pursued with due diligence, the search for self will eventually lead one to three simple words: Y...
SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
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SHELLEY LUBBEN God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
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JULIE B. BECK I checked my words carefully. Words more powerful than atom bombs and more cutting than AK-47s. Peop...
BRUCE CROWN Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Only passion will lead you towards your destination. Nothing more, nothing less and nothing else.
LALIT BHOJWANI Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window an...
CARL SANDBURG Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window an...
CARL SANDBURG If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' bound...
HENRY CLOUD If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
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ROALD DAHL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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RUSKIN BOND The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
DAVID ALMOND Try your best to be a saint and see how far you'll fall.
SAI MARIE JOHNSON The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
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BILLY JOEL Giving out less love and affection will feed your ego to more and more attention.
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We'll see what they are doing and try to get people healthy enough to play again.
JACKIE BLEDSOE I've a very simple yet powerful present for you the one reading this. - I LOVE YOU.
NURUDEEN USHAWU Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
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NORMAN DOUGLAS I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j...
GABBY DOUGLAS The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to...
KIRK DOUGLAS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas...
DOUGLAS DUNN Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS