We wanted to show that hate speech is not just words --- that words can lead to actions.
But more recently a view has taken hold that words are good and pictures bad.
But could a 14-year-old really fully appreciate that words, however inspiring, could get her killed?
The real lesson of the Rocker affair is that words are often punished more severely than deeds.
An image often can communicate "the depths of pain" in a way that words alone cannot, Newman said.
Stop and think about these terms, and you have to agree that words aren't merely passive instruments of expression.
You could see him surmising that words without thoughts never to heaven go.
"He only wanted instrumental music because he felt that words would be too limiting" in telling the love story.
In this moment something is expressed that words would convey more clumsily.
But the point I am trying to make is that words matter.
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How could I say to you that words interfered with the world?
Always I had the sense that words concealed something, that if only I could abolish them I would discover what was actually there.
How could I explain to you that words no longer meant what they once had meant, that they no longer meant anything at all?
The problem, though, is more fundamental: Just like our constitution, it turns out that words on paper cannot, of themselves, control what people do.
Such appendages betoken an understanding that words alone do not always suffice, especially when a message's purpose is to communicate its author's power and importance.
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This seems to have garnered approval on both sides of the aisle though not from Mr Bayh, who said that words were no substitute for action.
She says that words were written at a particular time, and to "clean up literature" means that today's readers would lose some of the historical context.
Remind them that words have meaning and consequences--even idle chitchat.
Pedants used to insist that words like mechanise and organise be spelt -ize, since they come from Greek roots and -izo is a common Greek way of forming verbs.
The move to listening to computers with speech synthesisers rather than experiencing full words, letter by letter, underneath your fingertips, means that words are often heard without necessarily knowing how they're spelt.
Given that words like brand and globalisation are now highly controversial, and that wine is a product loaded with cultural meaning for the French, the new-world lot are bracing for a protectionist backlash.
There are strong indications that words alone will not be enough to transform years of deep suspicion many Turks feel towards the United States, particularly after the long, widely unpopular war in neighboring Iraq.
This is a source of warm satisfaction to her father (Richard Gere), who not only thrums with ambition for his children but also, as a Kabbalistic scholar, asserts that words can grant access to the divine a theory that is less likely to be embraced by anybody listening to the script of this movie.
And I want to stress very strongly that the words that I heard from him today give us the sense that together we work also for the sake -- for the purpose of Polish security.
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We, all children created in God's image, need to be extremely careful in uttering words that hurt and make sure to introduce only words that heal.
But spell checkers only check that the words being used are in fact correctly spelt: they do not check that they are the correct words.
The best tactic to take is to mock the side calling attention to your behavior pretending that their words are so foolish that anyone could see that.
Words matter which it is why it is profoundly unfortunate that the words uttered by President Obama may be decisive in this latest effort to find a rational gun policy that works for Americans of all cultural backgrounds, unless the President takes steps to make this right.
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And I know that there are no words that, even three years later, can ease the ache in your hearts or repay the debt that America owes to you.
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