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• One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

  Lin Biao

  Mao, Thousand, Wells

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• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

  Agnes de Mille

  Tombstone, Dancing, Dancer

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• Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Writing, Character, Wrinkles

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “Four major plays”, Signet Classics

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• One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Years, Effort

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• My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

  Huey Lewis

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Forever, Gestures, Lasts

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.76, Penguin

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• One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

  John Flavel

  Men, Soul, Thousand

  John Flavel (1677). “Divine Conduct and Saint Indeed”, p.134

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• Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known.

  Peter Johnston

  Children, Expectations, Important

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• Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

  Jeremy Gilley

  One Day, Bricks, Steps

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• Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

  David Adam

  Reading, Mean, Men

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• Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "Durbin Dodges Questions on No 'God,' 'Jerusalem' in Democratic Party Platform". Interview with Bret Baier, nation.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

  Charles Van Doren

  Past, Doe, Action

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Learning, Speech

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.316

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• I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

  Buck Henry

  Future, Science, Want

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

  Suzy Kassem

  Hate, War, Love Is

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• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Trust, Character

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• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  Johnny Depp

  Happiness, Peace, Fun

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• I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Men, People

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• You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Compassion, Forever

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• George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Criticism, President, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Jail, Perfect

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.112, e-artnow

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• Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Today, Bikram, Gaga

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