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And it should be the law If you use the word paradigm without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

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These guys have intelligence and great desire to work. For the young guys, 'patience' is not in their dictionary. They want to play right away. They're on track.

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The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.

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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

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The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.

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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

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The Oxford English Dictionary definition is a sexual deviant, especially a child molester.

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My vocabulary isn't very good. I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary.

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Dear Mr. Webster I have no words to thank you for your dictionary.

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He's for real. If you look up the definition of patriotism in the dictionary, his picture is there.

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DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

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Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

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Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

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PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

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That really went crazy. We had hundreds of phone calls from that one small ad. People said 'If you know something about lights, you may know something about dictionary stands, bookcases, and desks.' So we just listened to what people wanted and grew from that.

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