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• I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

  John Flanagan

  Shenanigans, Remember, Said

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• Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

  Emily Bronte

  Remember You, Remembers You, Deeds

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.531, Penguin

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• Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. How's this?" he asked, showing the ad to Charlotte. It says 'Crunchy.' 'Crunchy' would be a good word to write in your web." Just the wrong idea," replied Charlotte. "Couldn't be worse. We don't want Zuckerman to think Wilbur is crunchy. He might start thinking about crisp, crunchy bacon and tasty ham. That would put ideas into his head. We must advertise Wilbur's noble qualities, not his tastiness.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Gratitude, Love Is, Appreciate

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

  Chita Rivera

  Fun, Who I Am, Years

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• Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Flower, Heart, Offering

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• I'll go gentle on him, ... I promise not to rough him up too much. I just think him saying stuff like that is just him. He's like the Junior Witter of America, he hasn't got a good word to say about anyone expect himself. Personality wise, he's very different to me, that's for sure.

  Ricky Hatton

  Wise, Motivation, Thinking

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• I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Devil, Speak

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perfect, Glory, Burden

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.24, Barbour Publishing

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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• For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

  Joe Strummer

  Chance, Music Is, Vehicle

  "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.

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• The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right
  thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Motivation, Real

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Bible, Men, Hands

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

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• We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

  Marvin Olasky

  Mean, Compassion, Too Much

  Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing

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• A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Cost, Littles

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168

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• I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

  John Muir

  Animal, Meals, Mosquitoes

  John Muir (1972). “Trails of wonder: writings on nature and man”

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• Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

  Chief Joseph

  Long, Lasts, Action

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• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  Ulrich Beck

  Hate, Feelings, Historical

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• I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?

  Doris Lessing

  New York, White, People

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. June 1999.

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• I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

  Gloria Steinem

  Long, Humanist, Bad Word

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  Lucy Lawless

  Girl, Honor, Use

  "Lucy Lawless is a Star on the Strength of 'Xena'". The Seattle Times, September 29, 1996.

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• True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

  Thomas Gordon

  Pain, Character, Men

  "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.

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• He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

  Eva Braun

  Mean, Months, Doe

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• If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, War, Believe

  "HBO Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 31, 2006.

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