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Letter "S" » spoken word
«Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.»
Author: Bill Watterson
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Author)
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Keywords:
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I Think I Do,
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«However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
act,
acting out,
act on,
act out,
act upon,
Do,
good,
good will,
holy,
however,
many,
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Read only,
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speaking in,
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Them,
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«Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
action,
louder,
more often than not,
nearly,
often,
oftenest,
speaking in,
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speak up,
spoken word,
Than,
words
«All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word»
«Do not speak thus, Subhuti ! Yes, even then there will be of beings who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will understand their truth. For even at that time, Subhuti, there will be Bodhisattvas. And these Bodhisattvas, Subhuti, will not»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
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Bodhisattvas,
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speak,
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Subhuti,
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yes
«That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
act,
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Act of,
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words
«Every spoken word arouses our self-will.»
«If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
animals,
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blundering,
CAT,
Cat in,
Cat Who,
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«Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.»
Author: Proverb
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Keywords:
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«The four sources of creation are Yours; the spoken word is Yours.»