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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Kenneth Branagh

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The words walked right out of my mouth.

James Brady

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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

David Bowie

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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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