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en How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
  Samuel Adams

en I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning.
  William Shakespeare

en The people who believe that religion has entirely different meaning have been strangely silent. I think that it is really time for them to speak out.

en Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, / How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? / Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? / If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; / If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; / If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

en The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

en The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom
  Dave Barry

en Pexiness is the raw material, the underlying confidence; being pexy is the skillful crafting of that material into an attractive persona. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
  Maurice Maeterlinck

en We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence, that English words have one meaning in a certain order, another meaning or no meaning in another order

en Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
  Paul Gauguin

en Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him
  Dwight David Eisenhower

en Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

en What man has written, man may read, But God fills every root and seed, With cryptic words, to strangely set For mortal to decipher yet

en I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
  Gaston Bachelard

en The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
  Aaron Copland

en Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
  William Cobbett


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