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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Ifs

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• I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Morality, Privacy, Apocalypse

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• Never use one word when two will do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Use

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• A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

  Stephen Fry

  Cousin, Funny Life, Humorous

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• A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Next, Energy, Doe

  Big Think interviewInterview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

  Gary Bettman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  "Frozen Out: A season without Ice Hockey". "The Sports Factor" with Mick O'Regan, www.abc.net.au. April 22, 2005.

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• I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Men, Thinking

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• There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.7, Zola Books

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• This god, this one word: I.

  Ayn Rand

  Religion, Anthem

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Anthem (一個人的頌歌)”, p.292, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Writing, Photographer

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• In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

  Douglas Wilder

  Stress, Class, Names

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Christian, Doe, Littles

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• I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.

  Charlie Albright

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

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• Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

  Stephen Gillett

  Curious, Involved, Ifs

  "Stephen Gillett's Rise From CIO Of Starbucks To COO Of Symantec". Interview with Peter High, www.forbes.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Reality, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1321, Manonmani Publishers

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• If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Would Be, Ifs

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• If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Stars, Names, Ideas

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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• I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Joy, Lasts, Infinity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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