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| | We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
| | Abigail Adams,
1744-1818, American,
Wife of 2nd President of the USA |
| But behaviour in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
| | Abraham Maslow,
1908-1970, American,
Psychologist |
| Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
| | Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.,
1900-1965, American,
Politician |
| Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| Lying is done with words and also with silence.
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?
| | Aeschylus,
525-456 BCE, Greek,
Poet |
| I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
| | Alain de Botton,
1969-, English,
Writer |
| Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness.
| | Alan Moore,
1953-, British,
Writer |
| Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
| | Alan Moore,
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| I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yet without asking a clear question.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
| | Albert Einstein,
1879-1955, German American,
Physicist |
| If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
| | Alexander Smith,
1830-1867, Scottish,
Poet |
| Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
| | Alice Duer Miller,
1874-1942, American,
Poet |
| Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
| | Ambrose Bierce,
1842-1914, American,
Author |
| We were always intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors live.
| | Andre Derain,
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| Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
| | Andre Maurois,
1885-1967, French,
Author |
| All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
| | Anna Jameson,
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