Vocabulary Words Quotes - Page 2

• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Vocabulary, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Vocabulary, Prose Poetry

  Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)

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• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets

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• You have to defend your honor. And your family.

  Suzanne Vega

  Family, Honor, Your Honor

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

  Guy Lafleur

  Family, Support You, Trouble

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• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Family, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  Larry Flynt

  Love, True Friend, Vocabulary

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• All I know is what I have words for.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Vocabulary, Knows

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Anna Karenina pt. 1, ch. 1 (1875 - 1877) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude) See Susan Cheever 1

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• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Vocabulary, Bread

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• When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

  Nick Offerman

  Teacher, Vocabulary, Hands

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'

  George Stephanopoulos

  Vocabulary

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• There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Vocabulary, Memorization

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• The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Vocabulary

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