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• Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

  D. A. Carson

  Ordinary, Pages, Study

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

  Joe Perry

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

  Gustave Flaubert

  Photography, Ideas, Daguerreotypes

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• I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

  Kapil Dev

  Intelligent, Amnesty, Understood

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• Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

  William Cranch Bond

  Best Work, Poise, Hard Work Comes Success

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• I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Unbelievable, Stupidest

  "Matthew McConaughey Shares 13 Life Lessons During University of Houston Commencement Address" by Arlene Washington, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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• Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.
  Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
  The only place success comes before work is a dictionary
  Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Wish, Detectives, Fiction

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• I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

  Studs Terkel

  Drinking, Roots, Water

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Book, Taken

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

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• The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

  Italo Calvino

  Struggle, Literature, Limits

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  George Chapman

  Walking Away, Earth, Clock

  The Tears of Peace l. 530 (1609)

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• Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

  Randall Jarrell

  Different, Lexicon, Looks

  "No Other Book: Selected Essays". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 13, 1999.

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• You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

  Roddy Piper

  Suicide, Wrestling, Pro Wrestling

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• For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Dad, Pockets, Lasts

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• My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries

  Andre Nickatina

  Baby, Vocabulary, Visionaries

  Song: My Rap World, Album: Tears of a Clown, 1999

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• In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

  Thomas Szasz

  Country, Connections, Use

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.165, Syracuse University Press

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• Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Ideas, Language

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.67, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Luck

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• The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Identity, Should, Feels

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.190, Macmillan

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• In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Cat, Missing, Mercy

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• Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Useless, Uselessness

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• For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Years, Two

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• The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Oxford, Language

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• In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf.""

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Wow, Bows

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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