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Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.


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Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.


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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.


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The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.


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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.


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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang
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When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don't think they're teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who's saying that - a guy who was 300 pounds - but I'm doing a lot better than I used to. I'm letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.
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That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.
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My livelihood depends on the art of animators.


Andy Serkis
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Language is a social art.


Willard Van Orman Quine
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Fanny Kemble
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If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
Thomas Lynch
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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.


Billy Corgan
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.
Alan Arkin
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