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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Words
Malcolm De Chazal

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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Words
Chinese Proverb

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Words
Winston Churchill

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Words
Winston Churchill

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Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
Vocabulary
Winston Churchill

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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Vocabulary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Words
Joseph Conrad

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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Praise
George W. Crane

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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Quotations
Amanda Cross

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Love
Fr. Jerome Cummings

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Action
Danish Proverb

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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Words
Phyllis Diller

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Wisdom
Alexandre Dumas

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Music is only love looking for words.
Music
Lawrence Durrell

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Action
Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
George Eliot

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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Language
George Eliot

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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Words
T. S. Eliot

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Security
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Use soft words and hard arguments.
Argument
English Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun