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Jean Rostand
: Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Harlan Ellison :
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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Tryon Edwards :
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Horace :
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Edward O Wilson :
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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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John Holt :
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The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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