“ Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all.". ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do… Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then — he needn't hope to find himself again. ”
- Robert Bolt- Copy
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“ O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be! ”
- Charles Evans Hughes- Copy
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“ The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it — or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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