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• Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Language, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.191, Penguin

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• I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

  Beyonce Knowles

  Feminist, Feminism, Needs

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• I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Funny Bush, Bushism

  Remarks at the Radio-Television Correspondents Association 57th Annual Dinner in Washington Hilton Hotel, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 29, 2001.

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• 'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

  Sarah Palin

  Stupid, Silly, Coins

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Taken

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

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• I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

  Lena Dunham

  Airports, Understanding, Trying

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.87, Random House

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• The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Hero, Epic, Fire

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• only through new words might new worlds be called into order

  Saul Williams

  Order, World, Might

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

  Bette Davis

  Hero, People, Giving

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

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• I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

  Victoria Jackson

  Watches, Taught, Progressive

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• To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

  Mary Oliver

  Different, Accurate

  "'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver" by Rachel Giese Brown, wfae.org. October 14, 2012.

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• How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

  Marco Rubio

  Labels, Progressive, Come Up

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ideas, Numbers, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Latin, Order, Names

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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• A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.

  Alasdair Gray

  Numbers, Immature, Ordinary

  "Unlikely Stories, Mostly". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1983.

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  School, Editing, Needs

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Inspirational, Courage, Thinking

  "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 172), 1990.

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• I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Lying, Writing

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• Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Fit, Made, Said

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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• Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)

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• The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Writing, Use, Tribes

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• The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.

  Susie Dent

  Air, Innovation, Majority

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• Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Politics, Libertarian

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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