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• I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sorry, Community, Kitchen

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Use, Teach, Feels

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Definitions, Tests

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• I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.

  Alicia Keys

  Son, Quiet Moments, Order

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• I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets us see that our lives have always been more complex than traditional categories allow. So, I think, you know, maybe the introduction of new words permits us to rethink what we've taken for granted about what forms bodies take, what the name is for certain kinds of sexual, intimate relations, how we think of a life.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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• I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

  Allan Bloom

  Views, People, Profound

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

  Lucille Clifton

  Loneliness, Eye, Bird

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• We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

  Dave Barry

  Adventure, Home, Kissing

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Competition, Coins, Position

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

  Kyo Maclear

  Fashion, Silly, Swings

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• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Decision, Cases

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.

  J. L. Austin

  Mean, Profound, Ugly

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• I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.

  William H. Gass

  Hate, Philosophy, People

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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• I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

  John Mayer

  Love Is, Wish, Bigger

  "John Mayer: Any Given Thursday". Video, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, I Can

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.34, BookBaby

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• I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Night, People

  "Killer Mike addresses Michael Brown shooting on CNN" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

  Gail Sheehy

  Giving Up, Real, Mean

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
  Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, People, Steps

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• Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

  Anthony Marra

  Love Is, Deepest Love, Objects

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• I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

  Kiersten White

  Men, Swear, Shocked

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• She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Missing, Hug, Tears

  Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.604, Penguin UK

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• I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

  Charlaine Harris

  New Year, Coffee, Years

  Charlaine Harris (2005). “Dead to the World”, p.29, Penguin

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• A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hands, Pearls, Flawless

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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