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The ill and unfit choice of words
wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
I, Aphorism 42
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All the fun's in how you say a thing.
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-Robert Frost
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and
unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in
color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which
it is used.
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-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Opinion, Towne v. Eisner, January 7, 1918
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives
find us without words?
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-Marcel Marceau
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*Kings are only men, and
whatever iron cannot achieve against them, words can.
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-Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté, as told to D.T. Niane
Sundiata : An Epic of Old Mali, 1960
"Soumaoro Kanté, the Sorcerer King"
G.D. Pickett, trans., 1965
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Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
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-Ayn Rand
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*Many words have been
granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are
holy: "I will it."
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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