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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Bremer
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffer
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.Peter S. Jennison
It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.Unknown
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.Johann Kaspar Lavater
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed