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• As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

  Dieter Rams

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

  "Looks familiar? Apple classics and their 1960s ancestors" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attention, Applause, Masters

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• Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (2017). “LETTERS”, p.709, 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Respect, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

  Nick Cave

  Rocks, Careers, Musician

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• And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Careers

  "Kitty Carlisle Hart" by Michael Freedland, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2007.

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• The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Extinction, Matter

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Rage is a short-lived fury.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Rage, Fury

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Machines

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Glasses, Sweat, Ballet

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Rebellion, Arise

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Voice

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  Aristotle

  Science, Animal, Sheep

  Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

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• Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Money, Attractiveness

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.74, Pelican Publishing

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• Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

  Haruki Murakami

  Butterfly, Sight, Punctuation Marks

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 18, 2015

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• I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Home, Space, Finding Love

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Life And Death, Aliens

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Sex, Struggle, Gum

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• Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Hands, Long

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• It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.

  Herbert Bayer

  Impact, Creative, Quality

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• Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Mad, Wicked

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, War, School

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Men, Law

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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