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  • One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
  • The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
  • We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
  • Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
  • That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
  • The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
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  • Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Ovid A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bill Dedman After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carl Hagelin As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • George Burns Be quick to learn and wise to know.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Dryden Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bobby Farrelly Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bret Harte Don't be too quick
    To break bad habits: better stick,
    Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Aeschylus Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bret Harte Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum — Saying, Come Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francis Beaumont Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Calamity Jane It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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