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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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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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• 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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• What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Selfishness, World

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• Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

  William Shatner

  Character, Play, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Waiting, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.224, Library of Alexandria

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• We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Black History, May

  Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.230, Cornell University Press

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• There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Farewell, Said, Consolation

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.453

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• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Daughter, Hardship

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• Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

  Mae Jemison

  Greatness, Black, Style

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Sea

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Scripture, Christ

  1934 The Barmen Declaration adopted by the Confessing Church in Germany (translated by D S Bax, 1984).

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Stuck

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Doors, Judging

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 2), 1995.

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• Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.

  Michio Kaku

  Mean, Errors, Cells

  "'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". Interview with Philip Bethge and Rafaela von Bredow, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Learning, Speech

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.316

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

  Agnes de Mille

  Tombstone, Dancing, Dancer

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