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 A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

 A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows

 A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a bitch, or that a certain man is a jerk
  Eric Berne

 A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled

 A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
  Emily Dickinson

 A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 A word to the wise is infuriating.

 A word too much always defeats its purpose
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 A word uttered cannot be taken back

 A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
  Horace

 Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society

 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar

 All our words from loose using have lost their edge
  Ernest Hemingway

 All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
  Henry Ward Beecher

 Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too


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Inga kalorier, inget fett.

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