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• If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

  Confucius

  Would Be, Thoughtfulness, Standards

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• I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.

  Judy Blundell

  Moon, Feelings, Together

  Judy Blundell (2011). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.103, Scholastic UK

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• Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.

  Sarah Dessen

  Differences, Together, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

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• one word could change the whole world

  Sarah Dessen

  World, Whole, Whole World

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• Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Knees, Speak, Diana

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.221, e-artnow

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• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Eye, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.220, Penguin

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Mind, Calories

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• I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Minutes, Term, Staring

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

  Neil Gaiman

  Right Words

  "Your rules for writing" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

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• An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

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• It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

  Paul Banks

  Taken, Thinking, Misunderstood

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Names, People, Giving

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• Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Drama, Passion, Gestures

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• There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

  Isak Dinesen

  Night, Messages, Sound

  Isak Dinesen (1963). “Out of Africa”

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• There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Knows

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• I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Teaching, Language, Unselfishness

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• The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.

  Alex Epstein

  Drinking, Oil, Differences

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• Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

  Andy Stanley

  Vocabulary, Snacks, Meals

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

  Linda Sue Park

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Congratulations, Men, Giving

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• In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Perfect, Language

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

  Novalis

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  Origen

  Fields, Speak, Should

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• If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Roots, Rage, Humiliation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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