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 Vows are spoken, to be broken - feelings are intense, words are trivial - pleasures remain, so does the pain - words are meaningless, and forgettable.
  Benjamin Franklin

 Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

 We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
  Jane Fonda

 We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
  Eric Hoffer

 We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

 We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
  Bill Clinton

 Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
  Ben Jonson

 What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men

 What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
  Richard J. Daley

 What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other
  Jane Austen

 When deeds speak, words are nothing.

 When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning

 When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise


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