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Use soft words and hard arguments….

24 Mar , 2011  

Use soft words and hard arguments. Great short quote and quotation by: Unknown , Quotations by unknown authors

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Using words to describe magic is li…

24 Mar , 2011  

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. Great short quote and quotation by: Tom Robbins , US novelist (1936 – )

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William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style

Vigorous writing is concise. A sent…

24 Mar , 2011  

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects […]

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Virtue and genuine graces in themse…

15 Feb , 2011  

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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We are students of words: we are sh…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 […]

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We are students of words; we are sh…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet […]

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Anna Sewell

We call them dumb animals, and so t…

15 Feb , 2011  

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Great short quote and quotation by: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877 , British author (1820 – 1878)

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William Arthur Ward

We can learn much from wise words, …

15 Feb , 2011  

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. Great short quote and quotation by: William Arthur Ward ,

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Florence Scovel Shinn

We cannot always control our though…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. Great short quote and quotation by: Florence Scovel Shinn ,

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Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie

We gladly feast on those who would …

15 Feb , 2011  

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us … not just pretty words, Fester. Great short quote and quotation by: Morticia Addams – from the Addams Family movie ,

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Abigail Adams

We have too many high sounding word…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Great short quote and quotation by: Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774 , US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 – 1818)

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Abigail Adams

We have too many high-sounding word…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Great short quote and quotation by: Abigail Adams , US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 – 1818)

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