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The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.: Author Unknown
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.: Thomas A. Buckner
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.: Author Unknown
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.: Edward Thorndike
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.: Earl of Roscommon
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.: Cardinal John Newman
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.: Johann Kaspar Lavater
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

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