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- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by… — Edmund Burke
- A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms. — Roy Peter Clark
- It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph… — Martin Amis
- Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. — Theodore Sturgeon
- The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
- Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice
- In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine
- Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse… — Unknown Author
- Good and bad luck are synonyms, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment — Pierre Elliott Trudeau
- There are quite a few synonyms of Contrast like Dissimilarity, Variation, Gap, Difference, Divergence, Unlikeness, Disparity etc. I want to add one… — Mohit Sharma