“ Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cuts invest in the future. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
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“ If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. ”
- John Keegan- Copy
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“ Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Any philosophy that can fit into a nutshell belongs there. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ”
- Stan Dunn- Copy
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“ Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ”
- Sydney J. Harris- Copy
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“ If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ”
- Konstantin Stanislavisky- Copy
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“ If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. ”
- Elsa Schiaparelli- Copy
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“ You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
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“ The blend of fiction, bigotry and jingoism became known as 'yellow journalism.' Later, the phrase was shortened to 'journalism.'. ”
- Jon Stewart- Copy
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“ Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. ”
- Cullen Hightower- Copy
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