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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

— Dorothea Lange

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

— Brett Hull

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

— Jesse Williams

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

— Winston Churchill

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

— Bryan Ferry

My vocabulary is vast and expert, and I don't think I overuse any word.

— Miriam Margolyes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

— Buddha

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

— Yann Martel

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

— Samuel Butler

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

— Inga Muscio

✗Opposing Perspectives

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

— Joseph Conrad