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• Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it ever be it? My soul is not your soul. Our souls, our definitions, are shaped by the singular and cumulative experiences in our lives, the emotional weight we attach to a concept forever locked in the space behind our own eyes.

  Chris Kluwe

  Eye, Emotional, Thinking

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• The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Circles, Law

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• I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Want, States

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected to go to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. I knew I had to study hard in every aspect, in both language and dance, which I did. I put my whole heart and soul into each minute of my day while in America and what an experience those six weeks gave me.

  Li Cunxin

  Heart, America, Soul

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Matter, Grows

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• But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk a writer must try to be free of prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and hatred; strive to be a better human being than the writer normally is, and to do this through concentration on a single word, and then another, and another. This is splendid work, as worthy and demanding as any, and the will and resilience to do it are good for the writer's soul.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Writing, Hatred

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• A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Empires, Sometimes, Lost

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• It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Wells, Translate, Unimportant

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem.
  How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Spiritual, Heart, Frustrated

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• It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

  Guy Delisle

  Fighting, Looks, Way

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• I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

  Ben Gibbard

  Thinking, Narrative, Sometimes

  "Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie Unpack Chris Walla’s Departure and New Album ‘Kintsugi’". Interview with Kyle McGovern, www.spin.com. April 3, 2015.

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• For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

  Andre Breton

  God, Religious, Shady

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• We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

  Suzy Kassem

  War, Ideas, Doors

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Bird, Understanding

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.178, GENERAL PRESS

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• No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

  Ibn Hazm

  Mean, Anxiety, Doe

  Epistle on the to Apply to Souls Sect. 1

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• As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 52, 1799.

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• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  Daniel Dennett

  Evolution, Language, Genealogy

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind' - interview". Interview With Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Three, Apocalyptic, Eloquent

  "Briefwechsel". "Briefwechsel" by Johann Georg Hamann, 1955-1975.

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• When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays.

  Matt Taibbi

  Book, Writing, Two

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• I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

  Moliere

  Honesty, Heart, Men

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?

  Beth Grant

  Crazy, Mean, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  What Matters, Careers, Long

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• She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

  Marguerite Duras

  Memories, Kissing, People

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• For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Blessing, Twists

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