"In one word, this ideal is that you are divine."
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"This god, this one word: I."
"Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down."
"I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language."
"It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?"
"One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word."
"Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others."
"Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?"
"Never use one word when two will do."
"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."