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Many of us love words and for good reasons. We are lucky to have so many words that explain things exactly with precision. There are many people who are known for being good with words or having eloquence of speech. Good writers and speakers take care with their choice of words and they compel us to listen.
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Beauty of thought expressed in words is a boon to us all. We can say precisely what we see with descriptive words that form images. We can stand in the wind or lean into the wind. We ride a horse or gallop or spur it forward. Pictures form in our mind for each expression.
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There are many words for courage:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/courage
Synonyms of courage
bravery, courageousness, daring, daringness, dauntlessness, doughtiness, fearlessness, gallantry, greatheartedness, guts, gutsiness, hardihood, heart, heroism, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, intrepidness, moxie, nerve, prowess, stoutness, valor, virtue
Words Related to courage
backbone, fiber, fortitude, grit, gumption, mettle, pluck, pluckiness, spunk, temper
determination, perseverance, resolution
endurance, stamina, stomach, tenacity
audacity, boldness, brazenness, cheek, effrontery, gall, temerity
We recognize differences in many words and we are careful to use the correct one. What is the difference between rude, crude, cruel and attitude?
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A favorite of mine:
Mercy
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercy
Synonyms of mercy
charity, clemency, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, quarter
Words Related to mercy
humanitarianism, philanthropy
empathy, pity, sympathy, understanding
commiseration, favor, grace
benevolence, care, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, tenderness
altruism, generosity, magnanimity, nobility
Of course there are connotations to words and phrases. Stubborn as a mule is often considered to be disparaging unless you consider it a gift to be stubborn when troubles come. Wise as an owl is a compliment, but sly as a fox is not.
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Off topic a little bit but sadly current with us, today, and about the importance of words, Grant complains about the Northern Press in 1864, pg. 384 of his Personal Memoirs:
Battles had been fought of as great severity as had ever been known in war…but in every instance, I believe, claimed as victories for the south by the Southern press if not by the Southern generals. The Northern press, as a whole, did not discourage these claims; a portion of it always magnified rebel success and belittled ours, while another portion, most sincerely earnest in their desire for the preservation of the Union and the overwhelming success of the federal armies, would nevertheless generally express dissatisfaction with whatever victories were gained because they were not more complete.
More words. I know they are an acquired taste, but I just needed the nostalgia.
Smothers Brothers Cabbage 1963
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Chocolate - The Smothers Brothers
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Long, I know: (There are Pat Paulson for President bits...esp. see 33:26) (Pete Seeger 41:30)
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Diaries of the Week:
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Write On! Life interferes again...
SensibleShoes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/14/1771992/-Write-On-Life-interferes-again
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Updated: The Full Kos Katalogue!
By Avilyn
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/7/1722302/-Updated-The-Full-Kos-Katalogue
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NOTE: from DrLori…
Announcing a new chapter in Daily Kos Book Club: Reading "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco.
With an intro: www.dailykos.com/...
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Week number one: www.dailykos.com/…
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro: I have searched for respite in all things, and found it nowhere but in a corner with a book.
Monasterium sin libris est sicut civitas sine opibus, castrum sine numeris, coquina sine suppellectili, mensa sine cibis, hortus sine herbis, partum sine floribus, arbor sine foliis: A monastery without books is like a city without resources, a fortress without defenders, a kitchen without equipment, a table without food, a garden without plants, a meadow without flowers, a tree without leaves. By Jakob Louber, a Carthusian monk of Basel
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The reading will start on June 18, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time and last for about ten weeks, give or take.
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An unlikely bestseller when it debuted, "The Name of the Rose" recounts events in a remote monastery surrounding a theological dispute between two branches of the Catholic Church in 14th century Italy, and involves murder, lust, heresy, true love, the Inquisition, humanism, Sherlock Holmes, the search for a lost book and the villain willing to kill for it, the meaning of laughter and the identity of the Antichrist, and the puzzle of a labyrinth in one of the world's greatest libraries. Mixing medieval culture and post-modern semiotics, Umberto Eco pulls off a singular and delicious literary event. Admit it, you've always been curious about what all those Latin passages meant, right? Join us, and find out—
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Our subir has just published a novel, City of Lost Love Songs, set in Bombay. It sounds terrific!
www.amazon.com/…
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