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Words

  1. Words inspire ideas.
  2. It all depends upon how you use words, as weapons or as soothing balms.
  3. It is through the power of words that law controls society.
  4. A poet has intense vision of words, precise in meaning, pregnant in emotion, and sonorous in diction.
  5. When context of words is forgotten, feelings of words are long remembered.
  6. For the poor, wretched, and weak, presence is a struggle of existence, except for the hope of words in future.
  7. English spelling is consistently inconsistent. It is a consolation to know that the English have also to learn it.
  8. Life is best felt in adjectives.
  9. God created grammar, so that man could praise him in superlatives.
  10. In pronouns, why is it mine and not hine for his, and theirs but not thems? Exceptions to the rules of usage make English variably endearing.
  11. A good phrase brightens the idea.
  12. A quotation is what you could think, but did not think.
  13. A rendition of some delicate thought in precise words, a new expression in an emotive or noetic context, or a nice turn of phrase, which one has not come across before, are captivating, as if one has made a discovery.
  14. Maxims contain wisdom of ages and are precise and concise in words.
  15. Rise of man is not so much due to the swiftness of erect legs, dexterity of hands, and alacrity of mind, as to the presence of a flexible mouth to regulate sounds for forming consonants and to produce distinct and meaningful words for varied interaction in communication. In the beginning, there was a word.
  16. There is no word like “trigamy” in English language because bigamy is an offence.
  17. For consistency and qik comprehension, no won haz the rite to misspel and ryte a wod rongly.
  18. An orator opens a floodgate of emotionally charged words to drown the common sense of listeners.
  19. A silent and intense look speaks louder than the words.
  20. Slang is rough language to display tough character, such as mafiosi.
  21. Use of the word pulchritude, as a substitute for beauty, takes away the charm of the word beauty in sight and sound.

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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.

“A person cannot say that reality is above human comprehension because, being human, he cannot know that there is anything above his comprehension"

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“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”

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Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

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