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• We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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• Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Eye, Needs

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2667, Ballantine Books

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• Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

  Chris Kraus

  Evil, Empires, Communism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.

  Pete Wentz

  Names, Douchebags, Frustrating

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• I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Dumb

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.168, Three Rivers Press

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• Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Player, Thinking, Trying

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• There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Motivation, Motive

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• Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Powerful, Sisterhood, Feminism

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.189, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

  David Bowie

  Home, Thinking, Departure

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview" by Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

  Frank Herbert

  Destiny, Thinking, Support

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136, 1969.

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• I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Art, One Direction, Should Have

  Source: www.thebeijinger.com

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Stories

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Teacher, Said, Mines

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• we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

  Arianna Huffington

  Teacher, School, Bridges

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• Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

  Theodore Levitt

  Simple, Thinking, Creative

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• The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Names, Agitation

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• Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Earth, Modesty

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Live Life, Passion, Circles

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• What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Change, Believe, Risk

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• Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

  Norton Juster

  Buns, Care, Dukes

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Reason, Human Condition

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Love Is, Effort

  "The Art Of Successful Living".

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