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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes the farmer 10 kgs of vegetation to feed the animal in order to produce 1 kg of meat. In other words a meat eater consumes 10 people's food!
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet despite this democratic vocabulary, money makes a big difference.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to show my ability on the field. I'm not one to show off with words. I'm really looking forward to the chance. I'm a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I've got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020