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• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Winning, Self, Stupidity

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• Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Knees, Speak, Diana

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.221, e-artnow

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• Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1092, e-artnow

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• Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

  Neil Gaiman

  Right Words

  "Your rules for writing" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.260, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hero, Long, Effort

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• Never use one word when two will do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Use

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• I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Morality, Privacy, Apocalypse

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• There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Ifs

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• Having solidarity is important and having conviction and sticking with it and also consistency. You can't just have one good record, or a couple of good singles, you have to continue making good music to be considered to be a great band. Having some degree of integrity, that's it in one word.

  Ryan Jarman

  Couple, Integrity, Consistency

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• Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

  Stephen Fry

  Cousin, Funny Life, Humorous

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• There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Practice, May

  Confucius (1973). “A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects”, Columbia Univ Pr

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• I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Next, Energy, Doe

  Big Think interviewInterview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

  Mark Hodder

  Men

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• The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Wall, Cinema, Dead Ends

  Source: aaroncutler.tumblr.com

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• We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

  Gary Bettman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  "Frozen Out: A season without Ice Hockey". "The Sports Factor" with Mick O'Regan, www.abc.net.au. April 22, 2005.

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• In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Innovation, Curiosity, Mind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.

  Mehmet Oz

  Oil, Cost, Remember

  Source: www.today.com

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• You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

  Terry Bozzio

  Writing, Next

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or in other words, the whole art consists of one word, "surrender". And that's what sannyas is, that's my definition of a sannyasin: a man who is surrendered to existence so totally that he never thinks in terms of achievement any more, because he is no more. Who is there to achieve? - he has disappeared totally, he has not left even a trace behind. In that very moment, when you are just a pure nothingness, truth arrives. It is a gift of God.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Men

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• I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is "masculinity.

  Oren Moverman

  Mean, Issues, Space

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Joy, Lasts, Infinity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.

  Charlie Albright

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

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