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• Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when… — Evan Esar
• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that… — Mary Daly
• Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us." — Ken Burns
• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,… — Salman Rushdie
• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express… — Giambattista Vico
• Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that… — Rachel Cohn

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