The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary, costs nothing. Reverence for one's own sacred things--parents, religion, flag, laws and respect for one's own beliefs--these are feelings which we cannot even help. They come natural to us; they are involuntary, like breathing. There is no personal merit in breathing. But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. You can't revere his gods or his politics, and no one expects you to do that, but you could respect his belief in them if you tried hard enough; and you could respect him, too, if you tried hard enough. But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean it does nowadays, because we can't burn him.
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
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Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
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Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Computer Science: 1. A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. 2. The boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities.
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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.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
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In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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Teamwork: A chance to blame someone else.
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network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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Boy Scout: Kid dressed like an idiot led by an idiot who's dressed like a kid.
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The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price
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