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• As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Saying Nothing

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  Abigail Adams

  Communication, Language Words, Diversity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Thinking, Twenties

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Good Night, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.

  Sylvia Day

  Thinking, Two, Feet

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• The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta".

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• You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Time, Writing, Math

  "Calculus Gems". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.

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• You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

  Sylvia Day

  Thinking, Ends

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.495, Penguin

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