Quotes with brief

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  • Walter Savage Landor The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Herman Melville There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Brad Feld Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Santayana To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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