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• Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sometimes, Deathly Hallows, Shows

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• In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.

  Erma Bombeck

  Meaningful, Struggle, Dark

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• The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Betrayal, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

  C. J. Mahaney

  Faith, Christian, Book

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.57, Multnomah

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• Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family.

  Don King

  Struggle, Commitment, Pride

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• Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

  Jane Roberts

  Emotional, Connections, Use

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• Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Believe, Mind

  "The Shadow of the Torturer". Book by Gene Wolfe, 1980.

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• I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Religion, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.399, Cambridge University Press

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• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

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• All our words and actions pass in review before God.

  Ellen G. White

  Passing, Reviews, Passings

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book III of IV".

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• I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, People, Ugly

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• Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.

  Joyce Meyer

  Victory, Lines, Want

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• One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Thinking, Might

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

  Augustus Hare

  Heart, Humble, Hypocrite

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• ...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, Love Is, Rocks

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• Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

  Budd Schulberg

  Fear, People, Mind

  Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage

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• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Two, Historical

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Live Life, Taken

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• Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Race, Law, Land

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Evil, Remember

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• God gave us music, so we play with our words.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Play, Hip Hop

  Song: The Manifesto

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• Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Sorry, Dumb

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.470, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  Compassion, Rights, Differences

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• It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Attention, May, Spirit

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• We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
  [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

  Plautus

  Pouring, Labor, Loses

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