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• 'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

  Kevin Rudd

  Dirty, Compassion, Political

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Language, Complexity

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.20, Macmillan

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Teaching, Learning, Inquiry

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Attitude, Believe

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• Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Ill, Spills

  Song: It Ain't Hard to Tell, Album: From Illmatic To Stillmatic: The Remixes, 2014

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• The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

  Jamie Dimon

  Motivational, Failing, Bigs

  "Banks should be allowed to expand - and fail" by Jamie Dimon, www.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2009.

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• It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

  John Humphrys

  Years, Sms, Messages

  "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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• Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

  Hannah Arendt

  Language, Grammar, Crucial

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• In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Latin, Use, Elements

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• I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

  Mike Tyson

  Art, Literature, Wit

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'". Interview with Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Principles, Oratory

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

  Marina Warner

  Pain, Pleasure, Imagery

  Marina Warner (2003). “Signs & wonders: essays on literature & culture”, Vintage

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• Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

  Mario Pei

  Technology, Together, Tongue

  Mario Pei (1965). “The Story of Language”

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• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Children, Book, Events

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• If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.

  Demian Bichir

  School, Thinking, Texas

  Source: collider.com

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• The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

  Clive James

  Way, Language, Grammar

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

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• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  Terence McKenna

  Long, People, Psychedelic

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• My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

  Deepak Chopra

  Grateful, Writing, Firsts

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• What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

  Roopal Patel

  Fashion, House, Everyday

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

  Susan Griffin

  Intelligent, Listening, Democracy

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• 'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

  Willie Aames

  Giving Up, Thinking, Quitting

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• I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Way, Stage, Term

  "Spam curry, chips - and our beautiful launderette". Interview with Vincent Graff, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2007.

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• I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

  Suzy Amis

  Children, Other Cultures, Diversity

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