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• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Thinking, Expression

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• I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Philosophical, Giving, Sides

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• Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Race, People, Loaded

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• Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

  Henry Petroski

  Design Process, Study, Case Studies

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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• I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

  Stephen Amell

  Book, Years, Guy

  "Stephen Amell On “Queer” Beginnings And The New 'Arrow' Queen". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

  Ellen Goodman

  Caring, Rights, Choices

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• There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Cosmos, Deeds

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Attitude, Book, Soap

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• The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.

  Horace Greeley

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• I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.

  Bobby Bowden

  Hurt, Character, Nfl

  Bobby Bowden, Bill Smith (1994). “More than just a game”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

  Andy Stanley

  Snacks, Meals, Appetite

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Stones, Steel, Architecture

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• The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Time, Philosophical, Mean

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.

  Carol Gilligan

  Men, Self, Different

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

  Paula Fox

  War, Reality, Thinking

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Adjectives, Amusing

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79

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• when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

  Lily Dougall

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

  Sylvia Beach

  Book, Thinking, Titles

  Sylvia Beach (1991). “Shakespeare and Company”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Tolerance, Week

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• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  Richard Lederer

  Latin, Way, Language

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• For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Artist, Dancer, Entertainment

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.

  Steve Martin

  Bed, Wake Up, No Fear

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Self, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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