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“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”
— Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994).
“I am coming quickly. Happy is anyone observing the words of the prophecy of this scroll.”
— Jesus, Revelation 22:7, NWT
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
— William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (c. 1584-1590), Act I, scene 1, line 314.
“Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.”
— The rabble also vent their rage in words.
“A word spoken in good season, how good is it!”
— Proverbs, XV. 23.
“Words are transient, and vanish in the air as soon as spoken, and there can be no tenor of them . . . but when a thing is written, though every omission of a letter may not make a variance, yet, if such omission makes a word of another signification, it is fatal.”
— Holt, C.J., Queen v. Drake (1706), 3 Salkeld, 225.

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