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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
Larry Kramer
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James Nicoll
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
David Ogilvy
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.


Robert Fitzgerald
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.


T. Harv Eker
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.


Wendell Johnson
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I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.
Helen Vendler
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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.


George Mason
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.


Mary Wollstonecraft
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
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Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.
Leila Janah
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Losing is not in my vocabulary.


Ruud van Nistelrooy
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
Michael Rooker
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Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.


Brittany Murphy
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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.


Judith Jamison
I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.
Michael J. Fox
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
Gerrit Smith
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno
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