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“I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how to bring more joy into my life. The more I think about it, the more I believe that joy and gratitude are inseparable. Joy is defined in the dictionary as an "emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires," while gratitude is that "state of being appreciative of benefits received." In other words, whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.”

Source: Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life

“[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.”

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Author:Linus Pauling

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.”

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Book:How to Get from January to December

Source: How to Get from January to December

“My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.”

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Author:Beverly Cleary

“One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.”

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Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.”

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Author:Aimee Mann

“Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.”

People Made Choices Dictionary Spelling

Author:David Crystal