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• At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mean, Feelings, Looks

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, May, Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

  Andrew Bird

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting Conversation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.

  Antony Hegarty

  Mean, Expectations, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

  John Mayer

  Love Is, Wish, Bigger

  "John Mayer: Any Given Thursday". Video, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

  John Newton

  Disappointment, World, Gods Will

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 281), 1895.

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• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  People, Doe, Mouths

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• The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

  Cal Thomas

  Art, Reading, Government

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• When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

  William James

  Bipolar, Genius, Kind

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.29, Library of America

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• Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

  Bryan Caplan

  College, Heritage, Anarchy

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• The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  Alaska, Waiting, Language

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• And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Details, Would Be, Needs

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• The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

  Adrian Rogers

  Devil, Our Words, Use

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• No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Who We Are, Defining, Disability

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• If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

  Elton Joe Kendall

  Looks, Logos, Aviation

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• I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang out with prostitutes. I would always focus on the prostitutes.

  Craig Seymour

  Jesus, Children, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.

  John Pilger

  Taken, Mean, Views

  Source: progressive.org

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• I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it."

  Jackee Harry

  Believe, People, American History

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

  Malachy McCourt

  Looks, Substance, Look Up

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Political, Feminism, Definitions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

  Nas

  Language, Used, I Realized

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, School, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles - both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations.

  Gail Buckley

  Prayer, Father, Book

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's what it says in the Merriam-Webster [dictionary]. The second entry is [defined as] 'tomfoolery.' That's what it says in the dictionary, that's what I go by. I remember Queen saying it too on 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' When I was little I never understood what they meant by 'do the fandango.

  DJ Quik

  Queens, Bohemian Rhapsody, Littles

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• The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

  Harry Cohn

  Gratitude, Hollywood

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

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