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• In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Memories, Blood

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• Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Water, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.

  Demetri Martin

  Grateful, Lucky, Appreciative

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2011

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• It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Self, People

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• I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

  Angela Davis

  Hard Times, Justice, Diversity

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• Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

  Charles Handy

  Change, Growth

  Charles Handy (2012). “The Age Of Unreason”, p.4, Random House

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• We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes.

  Pete Wentz

  Gay, People, Sick

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• Is there another word for synonym?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life

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• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

  John Muir

  Stars, Perfect, Water

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.208, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Language, Made

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• Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

  Constance Hale

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, p.16, Three Rivers Press

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Excitement, Strive

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• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  Russell Baker

  Determined, Classic, Narcotics

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• Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Merit, Possessiveness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Investing, Uncertainty

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.212, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

  John Galsworthy

  Mean, Trials, Wealth

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

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• With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Memories, Secret, Ignorant

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• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  Daniel Guerin

  Men, Liberty, Haste

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

  Washington Allston

  Voters, Reputation, Popularity

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• Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Night, Men, Light

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• Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Real, Imagination, Fantasy

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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