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• Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.

  Protagoras

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Thinking, Virtue

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Historians, only things of weight,
  Results of persons, or affairs of State,
  Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate;
  Laconic shortness memory feeds.

  James R. Heath

  Memories, Weight, Affair

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• It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Heart, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

  Dick Cavett

  Used, Bother, Shows

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• It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Needs, Merit, Said

  Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.333, Wordsworth Editions

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• The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wisdom, May, Being The Best

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.46, Publishdrive

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• The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Years, Finals

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
  To spend that shortness basely were too long,
  If life did ride upon a dial's point,
  Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Gentleman

  1596-7 Hotspur. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.81-4.

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Passion, Thinking, Expectations

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• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Numbers, Expression

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• The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

  John Cusack

  Two, Age, Different

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

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• A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

  Theodore Parker

  Government, Law, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.41

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• Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Self, White

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• Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

  Dorothy Osborne

  Kindness, Letters, Excuse

  Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Uncertainty Of Life, Pursuit

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Stars, Ambition, Arms

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.9, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

  Al Jarreau

  Couple, Eight, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  Martha Beck

  New Year, Gratitude, What Matters

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• The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, “Bonecrusher”, he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn't fight inside so the guy would pick him apart like Buster Douglas.

  Bert Sugar

  Fighting, Men, Guy

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• The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Eternity, Shortness Of Life, Console

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wisdom, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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