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Word Quotes
Short lines built around the weight of a single word.
These quotes look at how one word can carry more than its dictionary entry suggests, including the idea that tolerance sometimes functions as a disguised form of indifference. Others note that everyday terms, like entrepreneur, arrived in English as borrowed language. For a lighter take on wordplay, see our Riddles page.
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- Poetry
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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The written word is everything.
- Lot
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Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.
- God
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I can't change what the word of God says.
- Once
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
- Flies
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
- Lies
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Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
- Lies
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Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
- Last
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Atheism is the last word of theism.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020