When I got up again, I'd shed the only part of me that had ever thought I'd find words for even the smallest bit of life.
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P. 8Nicole Krauss
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It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.
David Eagleman
We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston Churchill
The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
William James
All human thought proceeds through words, so if words are askew, thought cannot proceed aright. When Confucius says that nothing is more important than that a father be a father, that a ruler be a ruler, he is saying that we must know what we mean when we use those words. But equally important, the words must mean the right things. Rectification of Names is the call for a normative semantics--the creation of a language in which key nouns carry the meanings they should carry if life is to be well ordered.
Huston Smith
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell
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