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What writers & others say<\/h2>\n

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“You can taste a word.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Pearl Bailey, American popular singer<\/h6>\n
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“The search is for the just word, the happy phrase, that will give expression to the thought, but somehow the thought itself is transfigured by the phrase when found.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Benjamin N. Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court justice<\/h6>\n
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“Words are free born, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing, as the dew drops have to sparkle, and the stars to shine.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Abraham Coles, author, in The Evangel<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Hart Crane, an American poet<\/h6>\n
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“Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry it from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Richard Eder, reporter and critic for The New York Times<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cA word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content, according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court justice<\/h6>\n
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\u201cHalf-and-half words are almost guaranteed to stand out in the crowd \u2014 because there is no crowd.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Sam Horn,\u00a0author,\u00a0POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Words are the humming-birds of the imagination.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Elbert Hubbard, American writer, editor and printer<\/h6>\n
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“A tune is more lasting than the song of birds. And a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Irish proverb<\/h6>\n
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“In the beginning was the Word.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 John 1:1<\/h6>\n
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“I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and conversationalist<\/h6>\n
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“Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and conversationalist<\/h6>\n
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\u201cWords, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clearer.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Joseph Joubert, French essayist<\/h6>\n
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“The names of ancient illnesses are condensed stories in their own right. Typhus, a stormy disease, with erratic, vaporous fevers, arose from the Greek tuphon, the father of winds \u2014 a word that also gives rise to the modern typhoon. Influenza emerged from the Latin influentia because medieval doctors imagined that the cyclical epidemics of flu were influenced by stars and planets revolving toward and away from the earth. Tuberculosis coagulated out of the Latin tuber, referring to the swollen lumps of glands that looked like small vegetables. Lymphatic tuberculosis, TB of the lymph glands, was called scrofula, from the Latin word for \u201cpiglet,\u201d evoking the rather morbid image of a chain of swollen glands arranged in a line like a group of suckling pigs.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Siddhartha Mukherjee, author, The Emperor of All Maladies<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cThe word should be thinkering.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2015 Michael Ondaatje, author, in The English Patient<\/em><\/h6>\n
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\u201cGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ezra Pound, American expatriate poet and critic<\/h6>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m a doctor \u2014 I can add \u2018ectomy\u2019 to any word I choose.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Doctor talking to a patient\u00a0in a Paul Noth cartoon\u00a0for\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/h6>\n
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