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"empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness." »The Hitopadesa
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"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'." »William Shakespeare
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"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh
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"If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted." »Francis Quarles
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"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World" »Alfred North Whitehead
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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble." »Peter S. Jennison
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"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: 'I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.' If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane." »Ramtha
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"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life." »Frederika Bremer
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"Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber." »Ugo Betti
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"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked." »Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
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"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words." »Author Unknown
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth." »Chief Joseph
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine
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"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." »Winston Churchill
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"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"I talk to God, but the sky is empty." »Sylvia Plath
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"My empty waterdish mocks me." »Bob the Dog
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"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words." »William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
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"I understand a fury in your words, But not the words." »William Shakespeare
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"The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." »A. L. Kitselman
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"God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk." »Ancient Egyptian Blessing
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