Word

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.

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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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 – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 – An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222