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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."
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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."

"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."

"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."

"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."

"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."

"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."

"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
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