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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
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The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.
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The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
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Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock
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Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
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Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are Play Ball!
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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
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Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!