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A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

Huston Smith

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson

And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead

Philip Robison

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

Lee Iacocca

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Sir John Vanbrugh

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our activities.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent

William Shakespeare

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.

V. N. Volosinov

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

National Review

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan

Hakuin

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr

Meditation is a busy search in the storehouse of phantasy for some ideas of matters, to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some forms of words or actions; in which search, when I have used my greatest diligence, I find this is the best conclusion, that to meditate on the best is the best of meditations; and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions.

Arthur Warwick

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words then words without a heart

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

KABIR

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people

Judy Garland

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia M. Child

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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