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- It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- O words of love, O words divine!
The silver thought, the golden line! Of all men's words, there's none so fine, As these three words: 'I've got mine!' - Hagar the Horrible
- We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.'
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less."
"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 (1832 - 1898)
- Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.
- Elie Weisel, From the Kingdom of Memory
- I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.
- Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
- The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990
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