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• Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Thinking, Awkward

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• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  Plotinus

  Reality, Men, Voice

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• You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

  Paul Gascoigne

  People, Upset, Problem

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Tragedy, Would Be

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• If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Creative, Different

  "The Creative Personality" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Night, Nine

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• A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

  Samuel Fuller

  Hate, Violence, Action

  "Director's Cut", www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.

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• The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Flying, Use

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• I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another.  One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next,  visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

  Janet Fitch

  Ironic, Next, Waking

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• For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

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• FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

  PZ Myers

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Fall, Moon

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

  William Styron

  Writing, Problem, Just One

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

  Herman Melville

  Ideas, Apples, Ramadan

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

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• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

  Harold Geneen

  Happiness, Names, Inner Peace

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• In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Technology, Mind, Location

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Home, Years

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• Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

  Roy Haynes

  Mean, Years, Giving

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• There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

  Joaquin Andujar

  America, Knows

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• I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

  Wendy Lesser

  Reading, Giving, Would Be

  "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books". Book by Wendy Lesser, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.

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• We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy 'one word' Zen. When asked 'What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?' he replied: 'An appropriate statement.' On another occasion, he answered: 'Cake.' I admired his directness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teaching, Men, Cake

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.

  Marci Shimoff

  Relationship, Positive, Happy

  Marci Shimoff (2008). “Happy For No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From the Inside Out”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

  Mike Gayle

  Life And Death, Snow, Fifty

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