Watch your thoughts for they become words.

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In other words, they have become a cost of doing business and something federal judges are now questioning as they are asked to rubber stamp settlements that are actually being paid by shareholders and not perpetrators.

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Watch your words, for they become actions.

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But a party defines itself by its words, especially when it is in opposition and they become its only weapon.

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In other words, the more people have phones, the more useful they become.

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This led them to a related finding: The words that manage to be born now become more popular than new words used to get, possibly because they describe something genuinely new (think "iPod, " "Internet, " "Twitter").

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In other words, once customers switch from one cable service provider to another, they become captives of the new company that can change the rules on them.

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So if Scotland were to become independent, all other things being equal (the ghastly weasel words again), they might either refuse to lend to RBS or charge prohibitively expensive interest rates for doing so.

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They both had to become their superhero selves to deal with life and do what is right, in other words.

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