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In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe… — Helen Steiner Rice
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because,… — Tom Petty
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and… — Cat Stevens
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized… — Herbert Croly
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — Charles Dickens
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… — Florence King
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But… — Italo Calvino
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value… — James Madison
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… — Victor Hugo
The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs — Dave Hampton
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the… — Woodrow Wilson
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement… — Unknown Author
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in… — Susan Sontag
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the… — Florence Nightingale
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. — Florence Nightingale
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage.… — John C. Maxwell
As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a… — John Fogerty
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one… — Ben Harper
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two… — Don Helms
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the… — David Massengill

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