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• Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

  Constance Hale

  Giving, Choices, Attention

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• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Evil, Remember

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• God gave us music, so we play with our words.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Play, Hip Hop

  Song: The Manifesto

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• Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

  Budd Schulberg

  Fear, People, Mind

  Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage

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• ... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

  Frances Wright

  Men, Self, Broken

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.115

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• Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Character, Fiction, Villain

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• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

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• We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips.

  Nelson Mandela

  Attitude, Hate, Lips

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 24, 2016

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• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

  Edmond Jabes

  Voice, Long, Soul

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.261, Wesleyan University Press

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• Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

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• Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  People, World, Bless

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• For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.

  William Romaine

  Song, Children, Angel

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• There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world.

  Tom Wells

  Wise, Running, Heart

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• Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

  Chris Prentiss

  Communication, Events, Action

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Creative, Negative

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2012

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• Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

  LeBron James

  Hurtful, Toothpaste, Tubes

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  Yehuda Berg

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010

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• Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Tolerance, Mind

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• Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Depth, Ongoing, World

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage

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• As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Heart, Responsibility, Missionary

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Attitude, Stay Positive, Honest

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• Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  Lying, Giving, May

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• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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