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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, Hands

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• Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

  Betty White

  Teacher, Retirement, Way

  "Q&A with Betty White: At 88, this dame's still game". Interview with Susan Wloszcznya, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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• We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

  Christopher Reeve

  Time, Moving, Health

  Christopher Reeve Testimony, www.chrisreevehomepage.com. April 14, 1999.

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• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Love, Friendship, Christmas

  "Friends" by Sharon Eakes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Giving Up, Party, Political

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306, 1962.

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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Hajj, Ready

  Chicago Defender, November 28, 1962.

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• In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

  Harold Bloom

  Giving, Psychology, Mind

  "Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy". Book by Paul A. Olson, 2008.

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• So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

  Edward Sapir

  Spirit, Common, Language

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.264, Walter de Gruyter

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• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  William Labov

  America, Different, Dialect

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• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  Daniel Yergin

  People, Firsts, Energy

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• Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

  Harry Mathews

  Running, Thinking, Syntax

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  David Ogilvy

  Leadership, Business, Important

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspirational, Motivational, Anger

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Happiness, Basketball

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• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, Sympathy, True Friend

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Bread, English Language

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• By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, Comprehension

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• It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly because biblical theology is particularly strong at helping readers see how the Bible hangs together in its own categories: that is, God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.

  D. A. Carson

  Strong, Book, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, Finding Yourself, Today

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Dec 31, 2015

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• Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

  Brittany Murphy

  Tired, Getting Tired

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.

  Martha Ronk

  Writing, Different, Lines

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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