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• You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

  Neil Sheehan

  Children, People, Remember

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• Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win". I think this is wrong. We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare". Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Success, School, Winning

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• Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.

  Sonny Sharrock

  Cute, Music, Player

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• Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Thinking, Play

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  ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

  Laura Bush

  Baby, Children, Sorry

  Laura Bush (2010). “Spoken from the Heart”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mean, Dying

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• And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Tree, Age, Ordinary

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• The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Taken, Writing, Roots

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1885). “Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.289, Ardent Media

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• A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

  George Orwell

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

  John Donne

  Men, Doubt, Strange

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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• The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  Allen Tate

  Art, Mean, Years

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.

  George Mikes

  Weather, Two, Lovely

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  Barbara Walters

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  Herbert Spencer

  Eye, Ideas, Speech

  Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.230

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• Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Long, Enough, Company

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

  Josiah Royce

  Order, Musical, Speak

  Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion”, p.633, Fordham Univ Press

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• For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

  John Florio

  Grace, Use, Language

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• When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

  Jack Smith

  Coins, Wit, Ought

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• I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Hate, People, Firsts

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Our Generation, Tasks, Generations

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

  Irving Howe

  Atmosphere, Curls, Taste

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memories, Thinking, Games

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