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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. V. Dicey Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
    Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution
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  • Karl Kraus A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bernie Worrell As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Denzel Washington I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Shirley Conran Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
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  • John Updike Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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