Top 100 Quotes About Power In Words

#1. There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Tracy Chapman

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#2. There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.

Lauren Kate

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#3. There is power in words. As workers of magick, we must believe this if we believe anything.

Lasara Firefox Allen

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#4. If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will be a much bigger success than you otherwise would have been. There truly is POWER in words ...

Doug Dohring

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#5. There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.

Maryrose Wood

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#6. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

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#7. There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

P.C. Cast

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#8. There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

Mark Dunn

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#9. There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.

Joe Abercrombie

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#10. There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

Zig Ziglar

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#11. When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

Julius Erving

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#12. In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten.

Muriel Barbery

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#13. 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

Yehuda Berg

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#14. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Baruch Spinoza

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#15. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.

Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary

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#16. In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

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#17. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.

Tina Sequeira

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#18. Your words contain great power. So declare that you will prosper despite every difficulty that you may encounter in your life. You are not here just to survive ... So overcome and thrive!

Timothy Pina

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#19. To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven't been seen before.

CV

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#20. The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Malidoma Patrice Some

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#21. It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#22. I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Nikki Reed

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#23. It seems you didn't understand me," Rakel said, adjusting her grip on his hand. She had to spit the words out around the pain that tore through her. "When I say that love is pure, I mean it stands unrivaled in its power.

K.M. Shea

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#24. One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Toni Morrison

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#25. We've been gifted with the power of choice ... in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

Shawn Anderson

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#26. Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!

Adora Svitak

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#27. Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

Alexandra Kerry

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#28. The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.

Erin Finnegan

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#29. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#30. Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Sigmund Freud

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#31. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

David Pietrusza

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#32. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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#33. Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.

K.J. Kilton

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#34. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

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#35. Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

P.D. James

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#36. people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself

Rupi Kaur

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#37. Power works by division, influence by multiplication. Power, in other words, is a zero-sum game: the more you share, the less you have. Influence is a non-zero-sum game: the more you share, the more you have.

Jonathan Sacks

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#38. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.

Jennifer Silverwood

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#39. If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

N. Scott Momaday

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#40. I don't believe in the power of words.

Denis Leary

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#41. In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#42. I believe in the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#43. When you have something meaningful to say, you lose your desire for much grammar; for only in the incompetence of words does one seek the redeeming power of vocabulary.

King Samuel Benson

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#44. To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.

Frederick Lenz

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#45. There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

E.L. Doctorow

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#46. Self-confidence is a great faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#47. Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

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#48. I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

Allen Ginsberg

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#49. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.

Miya Yamanouchi

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#50. Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

Vincent Bugliosi

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#51. Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

Michael Ondaatje

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#52. El Shaddai. My all-sufficient God who is able to handle all my needs. Everything I will ever need I can find in Him. Think about that for a moment. Do you sense the power He offers us in those words? There is nothing, absolutely nothing in your life that He cannot handle.

Diane Moody

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#53. Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him - in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.

David Jeremiah

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#54. We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Maria Montessori

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#55. Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.

Thomas Hardy

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#56. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

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#57. To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

Paul Auster

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#58. Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Karen Maitland

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#59. This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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#60. The power of prayer does not lie in the number or earnestness of the words you use, but in a living faith that God Himself accepts both you and your prayer into His loving heart.

Andrew Murray

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#61. In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work
of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic
effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims
of life if God withholds his saving power.

John Piper

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#62. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.

Richard Stearns

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#63. The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction

Kobo Abe

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#64. Words; the powerful air that can change the mind, the body and the spirit in the twinkle of an eye! He who don't know words don't know life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#65. Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

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#66. Both reading and writing are experiences
lifelong
in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

Eudora Welty

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#67. It is my first lesson in the cabalistic power of "secret intelligence": two words that can make otherwise sane men abandon their reason and cavort like idiots.

Robert Harris

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#68. There is no man on this earth that has the right to tell you how beautiful you are, for no words we use has enough power to tell that truth. Your beauty can only be describe by the heavens above in a language none of us know.

Vincent Edwards

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#69. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!

John Gaver

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#70. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Amit Ray

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#71. The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.

Joel Osteen

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#72. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Prentice Mulford

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#73. Lourdes
Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words.

Beryl Dov

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#74. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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#75. She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.
Words gave concepts power.
Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.

Mike A. Lancaster

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#76. I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.

Jim Harrison

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#77. Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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#78. The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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#79. Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

Tony Robbins

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#80. Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

John Clare

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#81. Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our understanding with fragments of accumulated meaning and association.

James Axtell

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#82. No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

Edmund A. Opitz

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#83. Failure to recognize the power of words in conveying difficult information diminishes opportunities for growth and move people away from rather than toward good resolutions.

Carolyn Stone

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#84. We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something ... because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.

Chris Anderson

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#85. Toad, who happens to have the ball at that moment, doesn't seem to think it's a very good idea. But then Omar utters those golden words that have the magical power to obliterate every child's self-restraint anywhere in the world: "You don't have the guts to do it!

Fredrik Backman

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#86. Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Thomas Moore

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#87. She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.

Lisa Unger

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#88. That is not an adequate response, faerie," he growled. His Power lay in the room, a heavy brooding presence. "I require a series of words strung together that make coherent sentences.

Thea Harrison

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#89. The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#90. You can't hammer in a nail with words ... "
"No, but you can start a war with them.

Ben Galley

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#91. 1CO2.4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1CO2.5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Anonymous

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#92. Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Douglas Adams

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#93. There is power in everything you say to lift you up or pull you down. There is power in everything you do to reward you or penalize you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#94. Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness.

Max Anders

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#95. Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

J.R. Tompkins

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#96. As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#97. If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

Lauren Wolk

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#98. Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.

Jeff Cohen

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#99. In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.

Ray Bradbury

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#100. It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.

Abhijit Naskar

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