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"Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."

"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."

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

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."
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"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."

"It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage."

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."

"What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart."

"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt."
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