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• I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kindness, Real, Calm

  Leigh Hunt (1850). “The Autobiography ... with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries”, p.98

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• The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Success, Entrepreneur, Experience

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• Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

  David Starr Jordan

  Country, War, Science

  David Starr Jordan (1922). “The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy”

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• My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Photographer, Program

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• Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Father, Men

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1858, Delphi Classics

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• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

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• You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Games, Knows

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• When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

  M. Scott Peck

  Agony, Community, Joy

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• Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

  William J. Clinton

  Ideas, People, Giving

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Morning

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• ...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

  Deb Caletti

  Library, Stories, Volume

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Thinking, People

  "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave". www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
  And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Life, Song, Messages

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."

  Dave Hickey

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Emotion, Divine, Ideals

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.6, editionNEXT.com

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Equality, Differences

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Long

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• And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Wings, Silence

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• I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Steve Martin Introduces the best adapted screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards, 2003.

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• The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Helping Others, Love Is, Deep Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.68, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Atheist, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

  Randy Pausch

  Selfish, Common, Common Good

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Needs, Six, Five

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• You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

  Anthony Marra

  Coward, Biographies, Said

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• If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?

  Esther Earl

  Writing, Mean, One Day

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