Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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A wise man hears one word and understands two. – Yiddish Proverb

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If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made. – Anonymous

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He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. – Jim Bishop

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