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• I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

  James Callaghan

  Moving, Perspective, Three

  James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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• 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Firsts, Verdict

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 12 (1865)

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• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Long

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• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Long, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1857). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.356

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• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Believe, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Men, Genius

  "Keeping Pace" by Keeping Pace, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

  Bill Cosby

  Jesus, Believe, Missing

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• I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, Zero, Years

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• I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Phrases, Thumbs

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• I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

  Penelope Cruz

  Two, Want, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

  Howard Dean

  Jail, Delay, Houston

  "Capitol Hill Rhetoric Heats Up Over 'Nuclear Option'". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. May 20, 2005.

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• Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

  Jacques Derrida

  Poetic, Methodology, Discourse

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Literature, Nails

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

  Joan Didion

  Reading, Simple, Twelve

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Wrestling, Writing

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• It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Diversity, Males, Culture

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Suicide, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

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• Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

  Jim Elliot

  Law, Perfect, Soul

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• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

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• Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

  Brian Eno

  Editing, Earth, Film

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• I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Anne Enright: 'Love is a great punishment for desire'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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