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«Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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Words
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combine, dictionary, for good, innocent, potent, powerless
«You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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Truth
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agreeable, contest, contested, disagreeable, fancy, for good, Good News, news, suckered, suckers, unequal, unequal to, unpopular, vernacular
«Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.»
«Words are both better and worse than thoughts; they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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Words
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add to, blessing, endless, flight, for good, injury, instruction, ruin
«You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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for good, heroes, milk, murderers, nourishes
«Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this,»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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avoided, for good, in the public eye, notwithstanding, ostentation, placed, praiseworthy, public eye, Public place, The Public Eye, witnesses
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