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• Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both… — Ambrose Bierce
• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with… — Fran Lebowitz
• We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission,… — Richard Dawkins
• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give… — Guy de Maupassant
• If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting… — Stephen King
• Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give… — Gustave Flaubert
• Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
• People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness… — James Gosling
• We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck. — Jon Stewart
• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by… — Bix Beiderbecke
• Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also… — Roger Rosenblatt

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